| Google Chrome is a web browser, coded from scratch by Google. It is designed with the features and needs of modern rich-media/interactive web applications in mind. In the traditional browser architecture, every process happens in a rigid chronological sequence: until the program hasn’t finished processing, say, a piece of JavaScript, it cannot proceed to render the remainder of the page or web app. Often, the result is that the tab, the entire window or even the whole application remain stuck in an endless loop. Enter Google Chrome, with a new multi-thread architecture (multi-process, actually) that optimize and speed-up page rendering. This separation of the processes avoids major crashes and browser exploits: if a single page is behaving in a dangerous way, it can be isolated from the rest of the application, which remains perfectly safe. A new address bar provides you rapid access to the most visited page, or keyword searches on your favourite websites. For the privacy-savvy surfers out there, a new "Private navigation” feature allows for perfectly anonymous web browsing, without any trace left on the PC. Among other new features, there are V8, a new JavaScript engine, and Google Gears (for offline use of supported web applications).
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