Chrome comic book

Here's a comic/graphic novel description of the development of Chrome: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/. The beginning description between how browsers were used ten years ago (static web pages) and today (dynamic interaction, audio, video), though simplistic, highlight the shift described as Web 2.0.

So in other words, the idea behind designing Chrome is to start from scratch to design a browser for users in our more interactive virtual world, a Web 2.0 browser.

Chrome

Quick note on my initial tooling around Google's new browser, Chrome.

First off, very fast. Opens about three times faster than Firefox 3, which is quite a bit faster than 2. Granted, I have a good number of plug-ins with Firefox that slows it down, but still. And it's quite quick in opening pages.

Love the movable tabs. You can click on drag a tab to a different position, or to its own window, and back. 

Also, has a task manager for the browser--you can look at the RAM usage for each tab, and close a tab if it freezes up, without shutting down the whole browser. As my son, Jonathan, points out, very much like an OS rather than a browser.

I also like the one window for address and search. Very clean.

Very impressive for a beta.