Google Chrome 3.0.195.20

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in theaddress bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from anynew tab.
Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. Its software architecture was engineered from scratch (using components from other open sourcesoftware including WebKit and Mozilla Firefox) to cater for the changing needs of users and acknowledging that today most web sites aren’t web pages but web applications.Design goals include stability, speed, security and a clean, simple and efficient user interface.
? Sandboxing. Every tab in Chrome is sandboxed, so that a tab can displaycontents of a web page and accept user input, but it will not be able to read the user’s desktop or personal files.
Google say they have "taken the existing processboundary and made it into a jail". There is an exception to this rule; browser plugins such as Adobe Flash Player do not run within the boundaries of the tab jail,and so users will still be vulnerable to crossbrowser exploits based on plugins, until plugins have been updated to work with the new Chrome security. Google has alsodeveloped a new phishing blacklist, which will be built into Chrome, as well as made available via a separate public API.
? Privacy
Google announces a socalled incognitomode claiming that it "lets you browse the web in complete privacy because it doesn?t record any of your activity". No features of this, and noimplications of the default mode with respect to Google’s database are given.
? Speed
Speed improvements are a primary design goal.
Stability
? Multiprocessing
The Gearsteam were considering a multithreaded browser (noting that a problem with existing web browser implementations was that they are inherently singlethreaded) and Chromeimplemented this concept with a multiprocessing architecture. A separate process is allocated to each task (eg tabs, plugins), as is the case with modern operating systems.This prevents tasks from interfering with each other which is good for both security and stability; an attacker successfully gaining access to one application does not givethem access to all and failure in one application results in a "Sad Tab" screen of death. This strategy exacts a fixed perprocess cost up front but resultsin less memory bloat overall as fragmentation is confined to each process and no longer results in further memory allocations. To complement this, Chrome will also feature aprocess manager which will allow the user to see how much memory and CPU each tab is using, as well as kill unresponsive tabs.
User interface
? Features
Chrome has addedsome commonly used pluginspecific features of other browsers into the default package, such as an Incognito tab mode, where no logs of the user activity are stored, and allcookies from the session are discarded. As a part of Chrome’s V8 javascript virtual machine, popup javascript windows will not be shown by default, and will instead appearas a small bar at the bottom of the interface until the user wishes to display or hide the window. Chrome will include support for web applications running alongside otherlocal applications on the computer. Tabs can be put in a webapp mode, where the omnibar and controls will be hidden with the goal of allowing the user to use the webappwithout the browser "in the way".
? Rendering Engine
Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine on advice from the Gears team because it is simple, memoryefficient, useful on embedded devices and easy to learn for new developers.
? Tabs
While all of the major tabbed web browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox) have beendesigned with the window as the primary container, Chrome will put tabs first (similar to Opera). The most immediate way this will show is in the user interface: tabs willbe at the top of the window, instead of below the controls, as in the other major tabbed browsers. In Chrome, each tab will be an individual process, and each will have itsown browser controls and address bar (dubbed omnibox), a design that adds stability to the browser. If one tab fails only one process dies; the browser can still be used asnormal with the exception of the dead tab. Chrome will also implement a New Tab Page which shows the nine most visited pages in thumbnails, along with the most searched onsites, most recently bookmarked sites, and most recently closed tabs, upon opening a new tab, similar to Opera’s "Speed Dial" page.

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