googlechrome

[random_walker]

Google's new web browser is supposed to go open public beta tomorrow (I've read reports from some people already using it

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[suicide_sam_e]

So long as he did not have to leave his home and no one pandered to his delusional hypochondria, I would suggest he completed it in optimal time.

[random_walker]

Are you sure you're not thinking of Dave Sim?

[random_walker]

Wow, the pure awesomeness of having an angsty misogynistic aardvark explain technical workings to me is almost too much to bear.

[suicide_sam_e]

I heard Scott McCloud. I would not doubt that both of them behaved that way.

[suicide_sam_e]

"It was hot the night we googled Chrome. ..."
- Gibson's "Googling Chrome"

[random_walker]

Very nice. He should have put a reference like that into Pattern Recognition or Spook Country. Maybe he did.

[hfwolfe]

That is actually quite techie-hip. The V8 thing was real interesting, although this "hidden class transitions" thing seems a bit opaque. I like the reoccurring explanations for why browsers need to be rebuilt from scratch. I wish people would see this same distinction with Windows and *nixes.

I'm not so sure about making the thing a bunch of separate processes, but I guess most page data is independent, and this would give failing or malicious code a limited scope.

I just hope the linux version won't have an about:config page for mime types.

[random_walker]

Also: http://www.gnu.org/fry/

???

I just wished he would suggest ubuntu instead of the more ideologically-hardcore "gNewsense".

[random_walker]

This guy analyzes what probably is close to your concerns.

Conclusion: eats lots of RAM, but due to good design it ends up using not many more threads than FF, lots less than IE8beta.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114054

FWIW I tried chrome today; it is snappy and has a nicely clean UI. Can follow a link into an "incognito window" which has a spy icon in the upperleft; anything in such a window won't get logged into your history. It, like itunes, takes over the standard microsoft windows decorations. I kind of like that, and it makes sense from a branding perspective, but I kind of don't.

[random_walker]

Also, Micro$oft Windoze only.