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Google Chrome sports its own Task Manager
Google's newly announced Web browser, Chrome, is generating hype of iPhone-ian proportions.
And yet, if you venture to try out Google's latest beta-labeled offering, you may find yourself saying (as one of my Chrome-curious pals remarked), "I don't get it."
Most of what's interesting about Chrome lies under its covers. If you wish to dive under those covers and get a really good look at what's going on, Google has commissioned a 42-page comic book for you to peruse.
If 42 pages, comic book or no, sounds like too big of an investment, I can sum up what's important about Google Chrome right here.
Web browsers aren't just for Web pages any more. These days, browsers play host to all sorts of software--your email, your music player, your tax program, your photo viewer, and so on.
On your Windows or Mac or Linux computer, your music player can crash without bringing down your word processor and that document you hadn't yet saved.
This wasn't always the case, older versions of Windows and Mac did not isolate programs from each other as well as they do today, and there was much more crashing of apps and losing of documents and gnashing of teeth back then as a result.
With Chrome, Google is out to make Web browsers into better software hosts. In Chrome, separate browsers tabs run like independent programs, which will mean more reliability and more security for Web applications.
Plus, Chrome does feature a "secret gift research" mode, like the Internet Explorer 8 beta I wrote about last week.
While I've taken Chrome for a spin, it will be some time before Google's latest has an opportunity to unseat Firefox 3 as my chosen Web browser. Chrome is, for now, a Windows-only affair.
Have you taken Chrome for a spin? What did you think?
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