Google Chrome – the Searchengine's Open-Source-Browser

Johannes Beus
After years of speculation it is finally here: Google Chrome, Google's open-source-webbrowser is being released today. An array of basic functions was adopted from other projects. The rendering engine from Webkit, which Apple also uses for their Safari browser and additional parts from Firefox. The JavaScript-engine, which for Chrome answers to the name of “V8”, was build completely from scratch. For Ajax-sites like Google-Mail or -Maps this is especially important and Google tries to increase the performance noticeably through different methods. Consequently web-applications will become more and more like “classic” desktop-applications. Further information on Chrome can be found in a comic and at blogoscoped.

It is safe to assume that Google is not doing this out of altruistic motives. The are rather trying to increase “their” share in the browser-market, which also includes Firefox and derivatives due to a cooperation with Mozilla. The cooperation, which makes Google the default searchengine in Firefox as well as on the Firefox-homepage, was renewed for another 3 years only yesterday – for which Google already paid 57Million US-dollars in 2006.
Johannes Beus - on Tue (09/02/2008) at 09:10 AM

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