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The new Chrome Logo

Our good friends at Google have been working on a browser elegantly named Chrome.  This open-sourced browser boasts features that are fairly new to the browser scene.  Google’s blog post introducing Chrome emphasizes the importance to starting over new with a web browser because the web has evolved from simple text html pages to rich, interactive applications.  In order to better illustrate how the idea came about, and what has gone into creating this application, Google’s Scott McCloud has created a comic book available for reading here.

One of the first features they illustrate is that Chrome separates each browsing tab into its own process.  Each process has its own memory and its own copy of the global data structures, thereby making it easier to maintain browsing integrity within each separate tabs, making memory management smoother and quicker, and allowing web applications to run independently from others so one bad javascript won’t crash other tabs.  A tab task manager is also available so you can see which sites are using more memory than others.  These are only a few benefits to having multiple processes within the browser.

Comcast just made official it’s plan to cap internet usage for residential subscribers.  They’ve been talking about doing this for awhile, though previously it had just been to charge people who go over a preset limit.  That limit will be 250GB a month.

Now, let’s just get something out of the way right up front: their reason of “we are keeping the internet from slowing down” isn’t entirely true.  I’m not saying it’s untrue either, as heavy loads from their subscribers will no doubt-ably effect their overall performance (if you have cable internet and wonder why your connection slows to a crawl during certain points in the day, it’s because everyone else in your neighborhood are all hopping online at the same time and taking the bandwidth from you).