Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design
with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use
one box for everything–type in the address bar and get suggestions for both
search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite
pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow
you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop.
Features
The Gears team were considering a multi-threaded browser (noting that a problem with existing web browser implementations was that they are inherently single-threaded) and Chrome implemented 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 give them access to all and failure in one application results in a “Sad Tab” screen of death. This strategy exacts a fixed per-process cost up front but results in less memory bloat overall as fragmentation is confined to each process and no longer results in further memory allocations. To complement this, Google Chrome will also feature a process manager which will allow the user to see how much memory and CPU each tab is using, as well as kill unresponsive tabs.
0 Comments