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Watching it live ... Chrome Browser: 1. Google Instant baked into the Chrome omnibox -- type one character, favorite page loads 2. Very fast PDF reader baked
by panarky 16y ago
Watching it live ...
Chrome Browser:
1. Google Instant baked into the Chrome omnibox -- type one character, favorite page loads
2. Very fast PDF reader baked into the browser -- can load 1,990 page PDF in less than a second
3. Hardware (GPU) graphics accelaration in the browser
4. Chrome beta was V8 engine had 16x better Javascript performance ... today adding 'Crankshaft' to V8, will be 100x faster than IE from 2 years ago (http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html)
5. Sync bookmarks, themes, extensions across machines
6. Security sandboxing pioneered by Chrome is extended to plugins like Flash and PDF
Chrome Web Store
1. Helps users find apps, allows developers to get paid; rich interactive apps from NPR, Sports Illustrated, New York Times HTML5 app
2. Games from EA in Javascript + HTML5 instead of Flash
3. 120 million regular Chrome users will make this the biggest app store in the world
Chrome OS
1. "Nothing but the web" -- browser running as close to the hardware as possible
2. Fast boot, suspend with instant resume, reconnects to network subsecond
3. "Friends let friends log in" -- share your notebook with other people and preserve everyone's privacy
4. Offline Google Docs, games, apps -- resync automatically when reconnected
5. Cloud print (http://code.google.com/apis/cloudprint/docs/overview.html http://code.google.com/apis/cloudprint/docs/overview.html)
6. Partnered with Verizon for pay-as-you-go mobile data
7. All data on the disk is encrypted by default
8. Partnered with Citrix for 'Remoting' -- demoed running Excel, SAP, CAD/CAM hosted in the datacenter right in the browser
9. Notebook pilot program! Jailbreaking built-in!