Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Sep 2008 20:55 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
With all the recent hype surrounding Google's Chrome, it's refreshing to see someone taking a few steps back and looking at the bigger picture. Superlatives were abound about Chrome (I personally really like it), but some people really took it overboard - take TechCrunch for instance: "Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows." Seeing my nationality, I know a tulip mania when I see one. So does Ted Dziuba.
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I tried out Chrome on Windows XP. It clearly is a browser with tie-ins for Google web applications. One thing that makes it unique is the ability to determine CPU usage per tab. I kind of liked this option. I could see a tab running at 90% with a flash banner ad and killed it. I wished for even finer control over Flash, such as the ability to enable/disable by a filter similar to Firefox extensions available. Compared to IE 7 it ran Google apps faster showing the benefit of Chrome's speedy JavaScript engine. I can see how people are referring to it as a 'web OS.' It appears to be moving towards a web application container for running Google-centric applications.
Edited 2008-09-08 23:33 UTC