So, today I ran across something called Google Chrome, Google's new internet browser. The interesting thing about Chrome is the technology behind it. It basically allows not only your pages, but different portions of the pages you pull up to be a separate processes, which just means that ultimately it handles memory better, so that once you close a tab, memory is dropped back into the system. This means that if the browser had to pull extra memory to run something on a page, then the memory is given back to the system when the tab is closed (most browsers expand their memory allocation on the machine when they need more memory, but the memory isn't given back until the browser is shut down). Chrome can do this because, as mentioned above, each tab in the browser is a new process (a new root directive which guides subsequent logic flow), so shutting off the spigot at the top ... you get the point.

Anyway, the good thing about the browser is the privacy/security tech behind it. All items within a web page are kept in what Google calls a sandbox, which is where the scripts and web page flim-flam is allowed to play, but in a read only environment; this means that any malware and viruses that want to write data to your hard drive simply can't. Nothing can be installed on your local machine because everything in this browser gets absolutely no rights to anything other than the right to display in your open tab. Nice concept. For those of you that want to get the technical mumbo jumbo, read this comic book (yes, I said comic book).

I like it already. I'm using it to write this blog post.