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10:26 am, February 13th, 2009, Giles Turnbull

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Mike Pinkerton, who has been building web browsers since before you were on the internet at all, is something of a hero of mine. He’s worked on all sorts of Mozilla and Mozilla-offshoot code, and was one of the key people behind my daily browser of choice, Camino. This man knows how to build browsers, kids.

These days he works for Google on the team that is building a Mac version of Chrome, Google’s browser of choice for the next few years.

And he’s just posted this little announcement:

“This week, everything came together and we can now load web pages in the renderer processes and display them in tabs.”

(There’s also a screenshot at the other end of that link, which is worth seeing.)

There’s still a pile of work to do, but the news is that one of the most important aspects of Chrome – that a tab can crash without taking down the whole app – is working as expected.

Partly because I’m impressed by what I’ve seen of Chrome on Windows so far, and partly because I’ll happily install anything that Mike Pinkerton’s worked on, I’m very excited about this. Chrome for Mac might – just might – be the browser I’d be prepared to leave Camino for.

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5 comments

    Sigh. More fracturing.

    Why another WebKit browser?

    Darcy McGee, on February 13th, 2009 at 11:47 am

    Because Safari eats RAM like a little fat kid eats cupcakes.

    Johan Post, on February 14th, 2009 at 2:31 am

    And because Safari crashes almost every time I merge 2 windows. I like Safari but Apple must recognize that there’s still some work to do.

    Logan, on February 16th, 2009 at 4:13 am

    Oh, and the update tool will still run in the background stealing ram and inviting hackers as with google earth to?
    Then, thanks but no thanks Googlers, I want no part of your little foray into “evilness”….

    Marten, on February 16th, 2009 at 5:57 am

    Yaay. Having used Chrome on Windows a lot, I can say it’s a huge improvement over the Safari & Firefox on Mac. Killer feature: not having to restart your browser every day.

    Jaime, on February 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 am