Yet another browser!!!

Yes its a fact, Google is coming up with a new browser named as Chrome. Its going to be real buzz soon - will this be an end of Firefox era? I'm afraid :(. The google analytics report says that the 8.6% of the internet users are hitting the internet apps from Chrome browser. This is defenitely not a small amount of users. At this point of time most of the people will be downloading this software and testing this application. I believe google can really grab the browser market with their simplicity. Some of the real addons google team says about this browser when compare with other browsers are

• Well designed to execute todays applications (web2.0)
• This browser can load javascript faster than other browsers
• Loading of components to the browser is multi-threaded. (All the other browsers load content single threaded. For eg:- if the browser is loading javascript, it won't do any other set of operation) Google addressed this as one of the major enhancement as this is going to increase web2.0 apps performance drastically, because of this asynchronus architecture
• Tabbed browsing
• One of the interesting feature - If the browser crashes while loading one of the webpage due to some bug (either in code or in browser code) it wont crash the entire browser, just the tab will be crashed. User can continue using all other tabs (Great feature isn't)
• Each tab will be addressed in diffrent memory space. When ever we close a tab, the memory will be freed up and the total process is going to end
• From google chrome's task manager user will be knowing how much memory a particular website is taking to load (All the tabs, plugins are run as seperate process)
• Webkit is the renedering engine google used for renedring the webpages
• The url bar offers not only visited url's, but also search suggestions, popular sites, ranked sites that you have not visited and more interestingly, you can search over the url bar history.
• The home page browser is going to change, The new browser is going to give users a tab which contains the most recently visitied 9 pages and a search engine towards the right of the screen
• This browser can work in read-only mode also. If the user do not want to save any of his/her visited url's cache etc on to the hard disk, user can do this if they start the browser in read only mode (Cool one)
• Chrome can automatically detect malwares and can block the further actions of these malwares. Chrome code can block this malware to a particular tab and once we close that tab, the malware will also go off with out much harm
• The entire user experience is sandboxed. Sandboxed security is enabled to the users and plugin
• When we login to a phishing website, chrome can really warn us. This is available with the help of google search engine crawling logics. Anybody can make use of this feature as this is a Public API from google (Now gmail warns emails from phishing websites. Might be the same feature)
• And the last but not the least "Open Source" - like all other google apps. (I hope google won't come up with a paid version which can give X times faster). The entire browser code is available in the internet

Google has not released a Linux version of this browser yet, I'm eagerly waiting for that to come up. I'm praying that they won't tell users to run the application using wine (Like they disappointed Linux user when release Picasa). I hope google will come up with a Linux compiled chrome. The entire scraps i have taken from this finely readable help approach from google. I really like this simplicity google. My hats off to you folks.

My Fedora box with compiz & xfce4

Okay its time to share my eyecandy desktop. I should explain some past history before going to touch up on. Xfce is the first window manager which impressed me a lot in my college days. Such a cool desktop with hell lot options and too runs with memory less than 100MB. When i joined my first company i was so lucky to work in the environment I admire a lot, but the real issue i faced there is the memory. I faced issues even with my eyecandy xfce also. (Real culprit java + eclipse), as a java developer i can live with out these bread and butter. When ever i run eclipse and starts my Jboss, my desktop starts drags me like a donkey carrying 1000 pounds in her :) back and climbing mount everest. I forced back to use twm.. hmmm not much eyecandy but still memory wise yes, i was able to find memory to my eclipse and JBoss. Yes now i installed FC (Fedora Core 9) kde as my window manager. But kde4 disappointed me totally, yes is should not expect much, its still getting matured. And i decided i must go back to my good old friend my Xfce. Woila the real yum, the updater yummy for fedora systems, installed xfce4 in just a matter of minutes. Yes i'm done I installed xfce4 in my desktop. Just for a second I thought xfce4 is not much updated coz i can still see the old looks for xfce4 also. Then i thougt I'll go my 3d windowing system compiz which can enhance my xfce4 like anything. yum helped more to install compiz from livna repository in just a matter of second. Okay its enough letmme copy couple of snapshots of my eyecandy desktop. A picture can convey more.

Got wonder with the woobly menu bar. Yes folks its not mac, its my linux box with xfce. Okay breaking the suspense, its is the application cairo which will give you this eyecandy feature. This too my yum repository picked it up for me. No more hickups in installing apps. No more lib dependencies and no more sleepless nights. Hats off to folks maintaining yum repository and the yum mmy updater tool. See couple more enhancements of my compiz managed desktop

Folks don't you really want something like this on your desktop too. Wait is over now, install Linux. Come to the opensource world.