dgcaste

Google's Chrome Sounds Like 1970s Pressure Cooker

Dennis, your writing is awash with technical incompetence. IE's new beta has a massive memory footprint and is probably the slowest of all the competing browsers. It also sports supper annoying reminders of its "webslice" feature. If those two things don't equate into an experience, you must be napping between link jumps.

The least you could have done is to read the comic book. Of course it seems all the same to you, since you don't bother to go into details of what could make this browser unique. Let me give you a quick idea, so you can skip the thirty something page comic.

Sandboxing: webpages are thrown into the depths of little-to-no-privilege... minimizing the ability to exploit the browser and the OS.

V8: a brand new of javascript compilation that promises to be faster in runtime than anything else that's been made before, with super aggressive trash collection.

Process Segregation: every tab is its own process, therefore, a renegade app is very unlikely to crash the browser, and just itself.

Standards Compliance: 75/100 on Acid3 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) is a hell of a lot higher than MS's 22.

And most importantly: this browser is not about making competition, but about making every other browser better and more compliant. Do you even understand what open source stands for? Microsoft cannot survive because their business model is being taken apart by the internet itself. Embrace, Extend and Extinguish is something everyone knows and is aware of, and only other corporations that are in threat of being snuffed out are partnering with MSFT in any significant way (such as Citrix).