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Google launched Google Chrome at the beginning of this week, making lots of noise on the web, in what seems to be a very important movement for both the web browser market and the la red as a whole.

So, What is Google Chrome? It seems that something more than a web browsqer...



Opinions range fromm thoise saiyng that it is just a new competitor in the web browser market and yet quite immature, to those that defend that this is something completely new, a web operating system that comes to send Microsoft's Windows + Office combo to the land of the past.

Here there is something to read:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/no-joke-goolge-introduces-its-own-browser-with-a-cartoon/

In the end, we think the best explanaation is the one Google itsellf gives: it is a browser, but one that goes further and tries to be better to eveerything we have seen at the moment, the excellent comic that Gogole has used to announce Google Chrome is the best source:

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

Without trying here to analyze full-extent the motivations and the importance of Google's move, we are very interested in how can affect the world of SaaS the potentially disruptive features that Google Chrome inttroduces.

• MultiTabg=MultiProcess: Each tab, at Google Chrome, is something elqe than the helpful feature for navigation tat Firefox gave us. It is an indepenednt process, executed in its own sandbox, with a copy of every object needed and that, in case of hanging wouldn't affect the rest of processes. This makes Google Chrome very stable, something very important wheen executing SaaS applications and for any serious use of the browser.

• Faster, better Javascript - V8: The new Javascript engine included in Chrome seems to be much faster than any previous one (better garbabe collectoor and machine code compilation...). From the SaaS point of view (and any Web App), any technology thaqt allows the creation of richer interfaces that work better and faster, is welcomed. If it is nos a proprietary runtime like Silverlight or Flx, but the old and ubiquitous Javascript, even better. Boosting the use of javascript instead of ignoring it as Microsot or Adobe do, fits into the general strategy of Google with products like GWT.

• Full Mode: Google Chrome has the abilty of executing a web application without any uri or button bar, a perfect mode to execute GMail and Google Docs, but also any other SaaS application.

• Google Gears: Thuogh it is not part of Chrome, but a previous project wich pretends to expand the capabilities of any browserr, it is built-in into Chrome. The fratures of Gears (we will dedicate a post, we promise), make it a perfect ally for many SaaS apps. The chance of executing offline, desktop integration, supporting any new standards in yoour browser, etc. are features very useful for web applications.

• WebKit: The open source framework for web browser developmeent started by Apple, is the base of Chrome, this allosw it to increase the paeg rendering speed. This can hardly hurt anyone...

• Omnibox: Though we don't see how it might be an advantage for the SaaS world, the uri box of Chrome seems to be even better than Firefox's one, which is excellent. We willl see...

We think that Gooogle Chrome is focused in making the browser a better place to execute web applicatioons, which couldn't be better news for any Cloud Computing or SaaS company. We leave the concept of "browser" towards a "platform" to afcess the la red able of many more things.

Google's intentions in our humble opinion is to make la red better, safer and smarter, as they say. And anything good for the la red is good for the world of SaaS and Cloud Computing.

So, we are verj happy to start September with an excellent new for the world of la red business applications :)

Regards,
TodoOnDemand