Chrome: Google enters browser market with a bang
Google unveiled Chrome, the company’s first desktop web browser on Tuesday, following the news that a printed comic book revealing details about the previously unconfirmed browser had landed in the hands of a blogger - who duly uploaded the material onto the internet.
Delaying the release of the link to download the software (it later emerged that it would be available at 12 noon, Californian time) on Tuesday only made the blogosphere buzz with speculation and hype about the forthcoming ‘new kid’ on the block.
Google claim that Chrome is "many times faster” than its rivals at running JavaScript – the underlying language which runs much of the internet’s rich web 2.0 content – Google’s Docs, Gmail and Reader included.
The search giant, in a bold move, has rewritten the "virtual machine" that runs much of the web application code ‘from the bottom up’ with a view to greatly increasing operating speeds. Reportedly, the team did so in only four months, and aimed to increase operating speed by a factor of 10.
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