Google Chrome

Well you can view the Google Chrome press conference online here. The site will be up sometime during the press conference I suspect :)
 
NathanE said:
Discussion of memory usage of web browsers is mostly pointless. The kernel takes care of swapping out pages of memory that aren't being used. It's no biggie.
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I dunno...I don't think you can just say that the browser can chew as much RAM as it likes, and the OS will deal with that.
Google's design means the browser will be duplicated for every tab you open, and the whole lot will be thrown away and started again when you go to a different URL. That's pretty wasteful...

I would also question whether the future of "web applications" is in HTML/CSS/JS at all. I am thinking it is more likely to be in technologies like WPF, XAML, XBAP's and Silverlight...
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They're all MS technologies though, with all the issues that go with proprietary options - not that Flash is any better.

There's still plenty of life in JS yet IMO, especially if all browsers (including IE) can keep pushing performance forward.
 
Yeah quite impressed so far. I hope I can change the search box though. I much prefer creating my own searches in Opera. I don't want to have to press tab after I've typed in g to search Google.
 
tolien said:
I dunno...I don't think you can just say that the browser can chew as much RAM as it likes, and the OS will deal with that.
Google's design means the browser will be duplicated for every tab you open, and the whole lot will be thrown away and started again when you go to a different URL. That's pretty wasteful...
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Yep it is wasteful and there is a point where Chrome will become less performant than a rival browser - agreed.

Also I didn't think of the situation earlier where an ActiveX or .NET component may be loaded a number of times on multiple tabs. Each tab will require another instance... more memory. So in a couple years when, say, Silverlight, is commonplace... each tab is going to have a seperate instance of the Silverlight/.NET runtime :/ Hell even Flash is implemented as an ActiveX control on Windows...
 
mr.sly said:
Yeah quite impressed so far. I hope I can change the search box though. I much prefer creating my own searches in Opera. I don't want to have to press tab after I've typed in g to search Google.
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I'm pretty sure that if you start typing in the 'Omnibox', it will bring up a link to a Google Search (the same way IE, Firefox, and possibly Opera does)
 
A separate process for each tab seems excessive. Perhaps I don't use enough hip new sites, but I very rarely, if ever, have one tab tanking and taking down the entire browser (Firefox / Safari)
 
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