This means that Chrome may be aimed as much or more at Microsoft Office than it is at Internet Explorer. The effect of all this should be - says Google - a browser able to run Web-based applications with the same speed, interactivity, and stability as client-based applications. Google claims that designing a browser this way will also cut down on memory bloat.Īlso important is that Chrome comes equipped with Google Gears, which is a kind of glue that ties together Web-based applications and your own hard disk. Each tab in Chrome runs as its own separate process, so if one tab is busy or bogged down, it won't affect the performance in other tabs. Google has chosen the open-source WebKit as its rendering engine, and it built its own JavaScript virtual machine called V8 for running JavaScript faster, with more stability, and more securely. To that end, Google has made dramatic changes under the hood. It's the only browser that has been built from the ground up for a world in which the browser is a front end to Web-based applications and services like those that Google provides, and like those that are used increasingly by businesses. Chrome appears to be designed in great part to run AJAX and Web 2.0 applications. In the same way that Google puts search front and center on its home page, this browser puts content first.Ī great deal of what makes Chrome different from other browsers is not what you see, but what you don't see. Nothing gets in the way of the content of the browser window itself. Chrome has so little interface, the content area of the browser is larger than with other browsers - it almost feels like full-screen mode. If that was the goal, Google has succeeded. If you can just ignore the browser, we've done a good job." The frame of a browser is called its chrome, and Google set out to reduce the browser to just the "chrome." In a comic book that gives technical background about the browser, Google explains its design philosophy this way: "We don't want to interrupt anything the user is trying to do. That was all by design, though, and it's why Google calls this browser Chrome. Be warned - the list of what's not there can go on for quite some time.
There are no add-ons as you'll find in Firefox. You won't find a good bookmarks manager, such as you'll find in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. There's no built-in RSS reader, as there is in Internet Explorer, or that's available as an add-on for Firefox. In fact, there's a very long list of features this browser doesn't have.
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