Google’s Chrome Browser

Google Chrome is a new open-source browser designed to create a better Web experience for you. It’s available in 40 languages and is designed to make it better by adding a combined search and address bar that quickly takes you where you want to go in a few keystrokes. Additionally, when you open a new tab, you’ll see a page that includes snapshots of your most-visited sites, recent searches and bookmarks, making it easier to navigate the Web.

“We think of the browser as the window to the Web - it’s a tool for users to interact with the Web sites and applications they care about, and it’s important that we don’t get in the way of that experience,” says Sundar Pichai, vice president of Product Management, Google Inc. “Just like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome has a simple user interface with a sophisticated core to enable the modern web.”

Google Chrome was engineered to give you a seamless Web experience. Each browser tab operates as a separate process - by isolating the tabs, if one tab crashes, the other ones will remain stable and responsive. Additionally, Google built a new JavaScript engine, V8. Not only does it speed up today’s Web applications, it enables a whole new class of applications that could not exist on today’s browsers.

Google Chrome is only available for Windows, and is in development for Mac and Linux (and hopefully will be ready in a few months). Download it for free at www.google.com/chrome.