Is there anything really new in Chrome? (The Googlization of Everything)

Google Chrome: Is there anything under the hood? Tester provides a deeper dive into the New Browser Engine By Thomas A. Powell , Network World Lab Alliance , 09/08/2008
The recent introduction of the Google Chrome browser wildly succeeded in setting the Web abuzz. Web digest after Web digest regurgitates the main points about the obvious user interface features and the cute corroborating comic, but is there more? The answer is yes, a bit of which — like it's foundation and some user-facing features — has already been around the browser world for quite awhile. But others, like several network-focused measures, will serve to be notable advances. ...

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Posted by Siva Vaidhyanathan, September 16, 2008 3:20 PM

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film fan on September 16, 2008 5:09 PM:

i keep learning about more and more advantages and features with Chrome, with privacy, for example; now if only they would take care of the browser's fickle cookie management...

Adidas on September 23, 2008 9:25 AM:

Well I do have to state that Chrome is just plain faster browsing than the other browsers, so the fact that they were able to copy or take all the other good features in a (Open source) and increase performance has made me happy. The fact that I now have to program to ANOTHER browser doesn't =)

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