So in the browser wars (also known as the cluster fuck wars) a new contender readies itself to step up to the plate. I will give you two reasons that it will be popular for at least the first 2 weeks. One its a Google product, even if it sucked –and it won’t– people would still have to try it for themselves before they believe any of the blogs and other reviews. Two it has a beta test. Everyone and their grandma will want to be in on this beta, especially now that the blogs are talking about it. But does that mean it will be bad? Hell no it doesn’t. Lets take a minute to talk about this browser “concept”. It runs in tabs but the tabs are all independent processes. This can be good and bad depending on how they do it. It is good because now when one page loads an bad piece of code and crashes then I don’t lose all my damn work. However does this now mean that if i have 50 tabs open im gonna have 50 processes!? that might slow down my pc a bit. Especially seeing as I usually have more than 50 open. But until we get the beta tomorrow we won’t know. I however am very excited about Google is sticking its foot in the race. This means that Microsoft will put even more effort into IE8. Not that i can ever go back to using it all the time but it would be nice if they made it faster and at least tried to compete. This also brings up another puzzling thing. Google just signed another 3 year agreement with Mozilla and its Browser (my personal favorite) Firefox. What does this mean? Isn’t it kinda like cheating on your girlfriend? Well only time will tell. My guess is that Mozilla will release a statement saying they are going to embrace Chrome and try and integrate some of its features, Mozilla will most likely want to keep the relationship with Google strong, but it is still confusing.
-DarkWarrior