There’s a new browser in town: Google Chrome. If you can judge a book by its cover, I like it already. I like chrome, silver, aluminum and similar looking objects.

So why is Google doing this? Aside from the usual world domination (just kidding), they say they spend most of their time working inside a browser.  So, they thought of bringing together the “best elements out there”.

I really don’t know what best elements are out there but I think like what they say about their “sandbox”:

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites.

From what I understand, they just basically isolated each browser tab’s process so that when a certain site causes your browser to crash, it only will crash that particular tab that is showing the offending site.  I know I like this because my Firefox 3 crashes on me all the time (in my Windows Vista, hehe) especially when I’m browsing Flash driven sites (you know, sites that have lots of graphics moving).

Maybe you’ll understand it better if you read this comic book presentation by Google. And, no, I didn’t read this.

Some comments on this blog fear a Microsoft type of application monopoly in a different stage - the Internet. And Mozilla couldn’t be happy Google has hired two of its engineers. I wonder if this forces Bill Gates to come out of “retirement”.

I think I like this initiative.  It forces Firefox and IE (and Opera and Safari) to improve themselves. Additionally, I like to have multiple browser types to efficiently handle my various blogs and web projects.