Google Chrome all set to launch

On September 2, 2008 Google will launch the first public beta version of Google Chrome.  With a list of features and cool little gadgets, they are making a move to battle Microsoft even more.

It’s entirely open-source.

It will have a built-in JavaScript virtual machine, called V8, which will radically speed up JavaScript performance in the browser.

The address bar has an auto-complete feature called Omnibox. Omnibox will offer search suggestions, pages you have recently visited, as well as others you have not but are popular around the Internet.

Anything that runs in a tabbed window will be sandboxed, meaning that it won’t affect your machine.

The default home page will show your last nine visited websites as thumbnails, as well as your recent searches and bookmarks.

Has a special privacy mode, called ‘Incognito’, which is a window where nothing that occurs in there will ever be logged on your computer.

Yes my fellow Beavis and Butthead fans, we said incognito.  We will be running this first thing tomorrow and testing the “incognito” features in a corporate environment.

More details to come…

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