Well, as I’m sure you know, Google Chrome has been out for a few days now, and I’ve been using it almost exclusively to give her a good thorough test. My initial reaction: pleased.
Google has once again lived up to their precedence and have offered another nigh perfect BETA product. I mean, look at GMail. That’s still in BETA and look at that piece of internet magnificence.
Chrome is fast, stable, and very very intriguing. I’m particularly excited about how each tab gets it’s own unique process as well as each javascript. This is interesting as it provides a whole new level of application reliability. It allows for a single application tab to crash while not compromising the stability of the overall application.
That way if your local IT guy writes a really really crappy web app, it won’t also crash your purchasing orders in the other tabs.
The downside to each aspect getting a unique process is a larger initial overhead (some unsubstantiated reports saying that it can use more ram than vista itself). Though, if Chrome does happen to have even a huge memory leak as soon as you close a tab, that process closes, and all the associated memory is reclaimed. Thus reducing impact. Unlike in FireFox where the single running process can end up accumulating massive amounts of ram, no matter what you do with the tabs.
All in all, I highly recommend trying it out if you run a windows system. Unfortunately there is not an OSX or a Linux version yet, but Google claims that those are in the process.