Google's Chrome makes its war cry...

The browser war is in full swing, Firefox created a world record with its Firefox 3 downloads, IE released its beta IE8 with inPrivate feature similar to Safari's Private Browsing. My favorite browser Safari itself is in its 4th avtaar in developer beta. And if that was not enough we hear a war cry from Google's own browser called Chrome. Chrome is a browser that has been designed from the scratch based on WebKit, a rendering engine that Safari also uses. Chrome has been designed with three things in mind Security, compatibility and Speed. Now what remains to be seen is will Google deliver ??

To enhance security Chromes used two blacklists, one for malware and the other for phishing in the form of updates.

That is to say Chrome warns users if they attempt to visit malicious sites that have been blacklisted. Sandboxing is another security feature implemented in each tabs of Chrome, which prevents malware from installing itself. Each tab in Chrome will run as its own independent process, meaning to say that if one tab is jammed the other tabs or the browser itself is not hanged or crashed.

Chrome will integrate Google Gears and will have Java Virtual Machine that will have faster response to java-script code.

Chrome will also have support for plug-ins and will include an Private mode which will allow end user to anonymously browse web without leaving any traces as this mode will not save cookies. This feature will work for any tab you want to invoke this mode on. Chrome will have Task Manager which will allow users to see the browser activity, downloads etc.

Chrome will formally be launched on Wednesday with a windows version and Linux and Mac OS X will versions will soon follow. BTW this is going to be an Open source browser. I love Google stuff so I can't wait for Chrome to invade our desktops..