Johnny Ye’s Blog

Google Chrome starts up slower than Firefox. But once an instance is running, starting another is a lot faster than IE  and Firefox. Surfing the web is fast, but I couldn’t tell the speed different from Firefox. All the google web applications run faster, but Lotus notes web application doesn’t work .

The biggest question I have is where are the plug-ins ? And I can’t find any information on how to develop them. I also heard that it crashes on 64-bit windows. But it’s a beta software, what can we expect? I believe once the bugs are fixed, and the plug-ins come out (It will be nice if we can import Firefox plug-ins).

According to google blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html), google is launching its own brwoser for beta testing today.  And it has a comic book to explain the browser in detail (http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html). Google Chrome will have indenpendent process for each tab. Jailing each process for security purpose. Its engine is WebKit. It uses V8 for Javascript VM and built with Google Gears. While some of its features are seen in Mozila and other browsers, I will say it is like google says “a fresh take”.