Here’s a quick overview of features in Google’s recently leaked browser, from the cartoon.

View the cartoon here.

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

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