Here’s a quick overview of features in Google’s recently leaked browser, from the cartoon.
Guiding principles:
- New browser designed from scratch to meet the needs of today’s web apps and users
- Desiged to be extremely stable, fast, and secure
- Simple user interface
- Open source
Architecture
- Multi-threaded, new process spawned for each tab
- Smart memory management and garbage collection
- Test driven development using Google’s search index
- Webkit renderer
- High-speed javascript virtual machine
Features
- Tab is the top-level UI element
- Tabs can be detached, turned into differnet windows, or dragged back into an existing window
- Omnibox - Chrome’s adaptive combined URL and search box
- Automatically adds invidual site searches to search box capability as you browse
- Home page shows thumbnails of your most visited pages and includes search boxes for the sites you search most on
- Incogntio privacy mode
- Intelligent pop-up handling
- Strong security features confine malware to a sandbox environment
- Built-in support for Google Gears
