Well Google has been putting their noggin’s together coming up with a new browser as mentioned in this blog post by Sundar Pichai, called Chrome (with some nice comic book pictures telling the story) since this is the way most people interact with their computer today. The folks at Google see more and more web based applications coming down the pipe and want to enable them not only on the desktop, but also on mobile devices. Google is also looking at implementing their popular Google Gears for offline use of applications as well faster Javascript performance- it even works on Windows Mobile for applications from Zoho and Buxfer.
Look they even have tabs on the top like they should be and not underneath the address bar, I configure my Maxthon and Firefox browser like this, however in IE you can’t because MS thinks why would anyone like to customize a browser and it should be the same for everyone- yep like everyone drives the same car…(hey if you want mouse gestures in IE that are native in Maxthon you can add them with this). I hope the tabs in Chrome aren’t fixed at the top for those that don’t like them at the top, don’t fall into the same mindset as Microsoft please, but I spoke too soon and they are fixed.
Google realizes that browsers today still work like browsers of yesterday piling up tabs into the memory allocation of the browser application a whole and not as a separate allocation of memory that can be shut down to actually free up space and not hold onto the memory allocation until the whole browser is shutdown.
This is a better way to deal with the memory issue that all browsers have trouble releasing, which is particularly important on devices with little memory like internet tablets and mobile phones.
The Tabs are mini-browsers in themselves and have their own address bar for entering in searches and your standard HTTP stuff, but it also provides suggestions much like IE8 in what they call Omnibox with smart auto completion. The tabs also contain and sandbox pop-ups that allow you to kill just one tab if goes wild on you or you can drag a popup into its own window. So from this it looks like Google will be not shutting down annoying ads, but also competitor ads that use Java and pop-ups ,which maybe in violation of some non-competitive laws, if it only allows ads from Adsense through and not other online advertising using Flash and Java scripts. Makes one think, hmmm.
New pages are no longer blank or your default home, Google thinks you want to go somewhere so it brings up your last 9 visited pages in thumbnail pictures and the sites you search most on the right-hand side in a list, but if you don’t want people seeing what you are doing there is a privacy mode. If it is fast enough and cached locally, I won’t really mind this, but if it loads much slower than a blank page than I know I and many others like me won’t like it all.
It looks interesting, I just wonder how well it work and how long it will be in beta. 
It is open source and Google is hoping that other browsers will take and use some of their technology, which will of course benefit them in the long run.
