What’s So Shiny About Chrome?

I have been hearing all this hype about “Googles new browser” and thought: What better of a developer to make browsers than a company that makes websites, right? Being a developer, I know the pains of IE hacks in CSS, breaking standards to make sites look the way they’re supposed to, its not fun. So anyways, I decided to give it a try today and this is what I thought.

Surfing the web is simple with Chrome.

At first glance, I kind of thought I was using a new version of IE. The missing file menu from the top made a 10+ yr Windows user a little un-easy but I’ll get over it. Also in terms of design, I’ve never been to found of applications breaking the borders of their operating system. Attempting to double click the left top corner of the app turns out doesn’t close it, only mins and maxs. A little bit of a bummer but not that serious of an issue.

I'm lovin the multi-process browsing.

The most breakthrough approach, in my opinion, that Google is implementing into their browser is the way they handle tabs: Each tab is it’s own process. Why is this important? Well for many reasons, one being that if one website happens to have some dud code that freezes the program, its only affecting that tab, rather than ending up with an entire browser meltdown. Cool huh? Plus, it also limits to memory hogging that comes with surfing all those porn sites. Plugins are also included in the task manager giving you more performance control.

Being a hacker, lets talk security. This whole “multi-process” business also improves security. Essentially, using Google’s “sandbox” approach “we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites.” When a tab goes bad, you get a cute little sad face to let you know somethings up. Kind of like when you drop your iPod down a flight of stairs.

Google knows that people like porn

Now for my favorite part, porn incognito mode. With two clicks, you can open a new tab that will store no history, cookies, etc of where you go. You are able to be completely anonymous from your computer. Don’t want your parents knowing your looking up bomb making? That’s cool. In all seriousness, this is a great feature that both IE and Firefox lack, but will soon catch on I’m sure.

So, in all, I’m liking Google’s newest approach at invading the desktop computing market, and hope to see more innovative ideas and projects coming from Google in the near future. Whats your favorite part about Chrome? Share them below in the comments.