Google Launching Chrome beta soon....

Google is launching its own web browser named "Chrome". There is a press conference scheduled on Sep 2nd, 11 AM (Pacific Time).

Here's the google-blog page link of the new browser. Their also using quite a novel approach to market the browser initially. Using a comic strip approach for this (can be read here). You should really go through the comic, its quite interesting :).

The launch of this new browser sounds quite exciting as they are using several ideas which seem to be taking the world towards "cloud computing" (which is only logical from their point of view) and blurring the line between browser and OS.

With this they are also now directly challenging M$ IE (version 8 beta 2 was just released a week ago).

The promises of Chrome are,
On the surface,

• Clean and fast

Under the hood,

• Each tab is separate process running in a "sandbox" (preventing crashes in one affecting another).
  
• A more powerful javascript engine called V8.
  
• Better pop-up blocking (sounds promising).
  
• Move a tab from one window to another (sounds cool).
  
• Built-in Google Gears for web dever's.
  
• It's open source.

The only problems I foresee (before actually using the browser) are,

• Having individual URL boxes for each tab - I guess this is easier from a developer standpoint, as each tab is a separate process now (but Goog seems to be marketing it as a feature :))
  
• The "Default" page would have your top nine most frequently visited pages, which may not be what everyone really wants to see when you open your browser.
  
• Would it's system requirements be high (Leaning towards multi-core?)

So I guess now we'll have to wait and see how good the browser really turns out to be (it's not yet available for download). Also Chrome would be available only for Windows initially. Linux and Mac users have to wait for now. :(.

Well it's been several hours since I posted the article and the wait is killing me ... :)