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Google's Chrome browser.

2008

The greatest coup Microsoft pulled with Internet Explorer was putting the word "Internet" in its name. It sits there, on the desktop of every new Windows computer, and it says "Internet". So you click it. [...] What better way to beat a browser with the word "Internet" in its name - a browser that seemingly can't be beat no matter how hard we try - than the Internet Company itself making a browser?

Tom Armitage

# 3rd September 2008, 10:19 am / browsers, chrome, google, ie, microsoft, tom-armitage

V8 Design Elements. High level design details of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, including how it uses “hidden classes” to optimise object property lookups and a bit of information on the machine code generation and garbage collection.

# 2nd September 2008, 11:58 pm / chrome, google, javascript, v8

Chromium. Google Chrome is out! Here’s the open source project, including the code for the new V8 JavaScript virtual machine.

# 2nd September 2008, 9:06 pm / browsers, chrome, chromium, google, javascript, open-source, v8

Google Chrome, the comic book (via) Google have finally announced a browser project, though it’s currently vapourware (or rather comicware), existing only as a Scott McCloud comic. Still, it looks fascinating—entirely open source, WebKit with a brand new JavaScript VM, every tab running in a separate process for smarter memory usage and some new UI concepts and anti-pishing measures thrown in as well.

# 1st September 2008, 7:45 pm / antiphishing, chrome, google, googlebrowser, javascript, phishing, scott-mccloud, usability, webkit