Google Chrome
I have to say that when I first heard about Google Chrome, I didn’t really think the world needed another browser. I am very happy with the progress that we have been making getting people off of IE and into the Firefox camp. I believe that having more products in the browser market will force more innovation which is always a good thing. I highly recommend you read the comic book explaining many of the technical innovations that Google has put into this product.
This evening I got on my only Windows PC and installed it. I have to say that I am very impressed with it. Google stated a goal was to write a new browser built more for web applications and I think they accomplished that. The speed is the biggest thing that anyone will notice. I am amazed how fast web applications run and it works especially well with Gmail and Google Reader.
Google’s move into this market is to develop a better platform for Google to create web applications. I believe that Google’s move is very similar to IBM releasing Eclipse as an open source platform for thick applications. IBM then started porting many of their applications to Eclipse like Lotus Notes and some development tools. I think this will help give Google a needed performance boost in their heavy web applications like Google Docs.
For those of you with Windows PCs around, I recommend you try it. I am not sure that I am going to switch at this point but it seems like a very promising platform. I haven’t seen any scheduled release dates for a Linux and Mac release but I hope it’s coming soon.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 am
I haven’t had a chance to really check it out much yet, but I’ve also heard some good things about it and the Javascript VM (V8) stuff looks really interesting. I’m extremely glad that they did not create their own rendering engine and decided to use WebKit. I’m all for browser competition as long as no one makes any new rendering engines