Buffing Chrome
May 29, 2009
The browser is the computer doesn’t have the freshness of “the network is the computer”, but it is a good indication of what Google is doing to annoy Microsoft. If you are sated with the compelling drame and theatricality of Eric Schmidt’s keynote at the Google Developer Conference, you will want to take a look at this ComputerWorld article: “Six Things to Expect from Google Chrome Extensions” by C.G. Lynch here. (This is a whopper of a url, and the link may go dead at any time.) Mr. Lynch does a very good job of pointing out the most recent buff job that Google applied to its Chrome browser. One enhancement caught my attention:
One of the things that makes Google Chrome a unique browser is that it was designed to run processes on apps and web pages at the same time. So, for instance, if you opened your Twitter feed in one tab, and Facebook in another, the browser won’t favor one app just because you opened it first. It will automatically (and fairly) allocate power to running both apps. Extensions will work the same. As you add extensions, and utilize them, the browser will fairly give them the power they need. This is also good from a security perspective, Boodman says. If one extension is riddled with malicious code, it will only affect that extension, not the other extensions or tabs.
Google’s container technology, which dates from 2004, is now making its presence more visible. Important stuff.
Stephen Arnold, May 29, 2009
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