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The Key Facts You Need to Know About Google's Chrome browser

By: Michael Adams

Does the world need another web browser? Google thought so and surprised the world with the announcement and simultaneous release of its new web browser "Chrome".

In an attempt to help everyone understand the features and benefits of Chrome, Google created a fun to read comic book and released it to the world before their press conference where they announced the product. During the press conference, Google also did a live demonstration of Chrome and some of its more exciting features.

The concept behind Chrome was to create a browser that runs complex web apps faster and with more stability than current web browsers such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Mozilla's Firefox. The genesis of the idea no doubt came from the fact that Google employees do most of their daily work and spend most of their work days "living" inside the browser. It's easy to understand how slow and unstable browser performance would be the bane of their productivity.

One of the main features Google introduced with Chrome is that each browser tab now runs as its own process within the operating system. In every day terms, this means stability. When you browse with Chrome, the website you are viewing in one tab will not affect the performance of the website you are viewing in a second tab. Apparently Google's analysis showed that with existing browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, bugs and performance problems from certain websites could and did cause problems for the browser as a whole, even causing users to lose their work in progress when the browser crashed.

A benefit of Google's new tab system is that you can now do things like pull a tab out of your browser to create a separate window.

Another important fact about Google's Chrome browser is that the source code is available to software developers worldwide. Making the source code available as "open source" means that we'll see programmers around the world developing custom modifications and additions to Chrome faster and in more innovative ways than Google could have managed on its own.

One of the controversies surrounding Google's Chrome is the fact that Google released the browser early in what they are calling a "beta". With Chrome's version number standing at 0.2, some early adopters questioned Google's decision to release the software so early and were indeed expecting a more finished product.

To put Chrome in perspective, it's best to understand that "Chrome was built by Google from the ground up to run current and future web applications well". On the other hand, Microsoft created Internet Explorer and Mozilla created Firefox based on the older concept of simply displaying web pages well.

Many say that the future of computing involves running more and more web applications. Google believes this and created the Google Chrome browser.

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To find more Google Chrome browser news and information, plus additional opinions, insights, new web apps and pages from Michael Adams, make sure you visit "The Chrome Voice".

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