Tuesday, September 2, 2008

GOOGLE CHROME: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR YOU?

Google Chrome was designed to make it easy for users to search and navigate the web for the content they're looking for.

  • A combined search and address bar quickly takes users where they want to go,often in just a few keystrokes.
  • When users open a new tab in Google Chrome, they'll see a page that includes snapshots of their most-visited sites, recent searches and bookmarks, making it even easier to navigate the web.
Google Chrome was engineered todelivera seamless web experience for users. At its core is a multi-process platform thathelps provideusers with enhanced stability and security.
  • Each browser tab operates as a separate process; by isolating tabs, should one tab crash or misbehave, others remain stable and responsive, and users can continue working without having to restart Google Chrome.
  • Google also built a new JavaScript engine,V8, which notonly speeds up today's web applications, but enables a whole new classof web applications that couldn't exist on today's browsers.
Contributing to the innovation of browsers through openness
"While we see this as a fundamental shift in the way people think about browsers, we realize that we couldn't have created Google Chrome on our own," said Linus Upson, Director of Engineering, Google Inc. "Google Chrome was built upon other open source projects that are making significant contributions tobrowser technologyand have helped to spur competition and innovation."

To further advance the openness of the web, Google Chrome is being released as an open source project under the name Chromium. The intent is that Google will help make future browsers better by contributing the underlying technology in Google Chrome to the market, while continuing to develop additional features.

How to get Google Chrome (If you have Windows; MAC and Linux are future state)
Google Chrome can be downloaded at www.google.com/chrome. It is being released in beta for Windows in over 100 countries in the following languages: Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Turkish, English (US), English (UK), Arabic, Czech, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Filipino, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Thai, Vietnamese, and Estonian.

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