[ale] OT: Google releases new OS browser - CHROME

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> I do look forward to trying out the thing on Linux, once they have a
> working port of it.  The various things that they have the thing
> designed to do sound interesting, particularly on non-Windows systems
> (the whole one-process-per-tab deal is cool, though it's expensive on
> Windows systems at 5 million CPU cycles to start a new process).  I
> would enjoy having a browser with a faster JavaScript engine, as well,
> and supposedly the engine they used is significantly faster.  That'll be
> the thing that helps it get up there, if anything, I think---faster
> JavaScript will mean that fully-featured async Web apps that support the
> desktop paradigm will become more feasible.  :-)

Supposedly the Javascript engine in Firefox 3.1 is even faster.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/09/tracemonkey_update.html

-Brian