As Mozilla have introduced their invention Firefox 3 with tons of new features they have concluded what end-user might need to make life easier to browse through the web.
What to expect more? How to create even more comfortable and intelligent browser?
Google rethought the question and decided to build completely new browser, from scratch. The main reason is that we spend so much time online that it would be ideal to do everything only in browser - “search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser.”
“What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.”
What it looks like Google is building a new browsing platform to support their Javascript-rich applications - such as Google Docs, Gmail, Google Reader, Google Maps, Notebook and so on.
Even if they build super-performance Javascript rendering engine, the question still remains - how it looks like, how comfortable and how customizable (add-ons, themes) it is.
The only advantage Google has revealed is a “sand-box” for every tab - if a tab crashes it won’t crash the whole application.
A short comic on advantages is here.
Hot screenshots (or just mock-ups?) are here.
So, what are we expecting?
Optimized for browsing complex ajax-rich web applications, customizable, high performance browser - as efficient and safe as Firefox is.
The beta of the browser is to be released on 3rd of September. Wait for updates and overviews.
Some features:
- Personalized view: opening a new tab pops up the fast access page for navigation through most visited sites
- “Incognito” tab - everything in this tab is not written into history, doesn’t contain cookies and 100% private.
- Each tab is different process - good for performance - consumes less memory, secure when a tab crashes, application stays.
What do you think of new approach of browsing the web? What is missing in today’s browsers?
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