Google Chrome – Why should you care?
September 2008 by admin
Have you ever had your browser freeze up while you were working online? Maybe you were just surfing, or maybe like me and many others, you experienced that sudden jolt of fear as your browser locked just after you entered your credit card number…
Most of the time when that happens to me, it’s not even the site or tab I’m on in my browser that’s causing problems, it’s another site in another tab that I stopped looking at 10 mins prior.
The promise of each browser window or tab being it’s own process is a technical way of saying that they’ve fixed it so when one site or “tab” in your browser goes bad, it doesn’t take you down with it.
Cool or cool? Trust me, if it works, it will be cool.
And this is just the start of the goodness.
Yep, that’s the killer-app feature. I love firefox, but Mozilla’s ongoing refusal to give each tab its own thread is a huge mistake. Assuming Chrome handles tabs intelligently in other ways too (like Firefox, UNlike IE), Chrome could be the next big thing. Can’t wait.