Chrome Directory

Charlie Reis explains why using a multi-process architecture can be a big win for browsers on today’s web.

I’ll also talk about which parts of the browser belong in each process and in which situations Google Chrome creates new processes.”

Topics include:

1. Why use multiple processes in a browser?
2. What goes in each process?
3. When should the browser create processes?

Neil McAllister takes a look at Google Chrome “from a developer’s perspective.”

By now it’s no secret that Chrome has combined some of the best features from the existing browsers and some of the future plans Google has will put it over the top. Read about them here.

Today, Google released it’s own web browser called Google Chrome. Initially in beta like many of it’s offerings and starting with a Microsoft Windows only version with a promise of Mac and Linux versions coming soon. Chrome combines some best of breed open source components and some new components like Webkit (also used in the Mac browser, Safari) and the V8 JavaScript Engine which was written from scratch to offer increased performance. Chrome itself is also entirely open source which leads some to worry about the security ramifications of this new browser.

The last couple of days have been very active with speculation on what this means for the browser market and the ever-growing competition between Microsoft and Google. Many believe that Chrome is a direct threat to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which currently has approximately 75 percent of the browser market.

More to come soon.

A day before it’s planned release to the public, a comic strip details Google Chrome, a new open source web browser. View the highlights.