Web 2.0 technology is a tech buzz word now a days. Developers are looking for a newer form of browser that could handle web applications. Thus, Google have released Chrome web browser which is purposefully built for web based applications. Chrome is unlike the content viewer concept of traditional browsers as it’s designed to be more of a platform or window manager for running web pages and web applications.

The Chrome browser is built around WebKit open source browser engine project which is also used by products like Safari web browser and many other OS X applications. The current release of Chrome is running only under MS Windows system. Plans of having later release for Mac OS X and Linux systems are already in place.

Though the speed of one browser might not be really noticeable compared with other web browsers having those minute differences in the rendering engine will spell a lot in computer resource consumption. I have seen browsers that gobble up a huge amount of RAM when running Web 2.0 applications that are heavily built on JavaScript.

You could download Chrome browser from the following URL or address:
http://www.google.com/chrome/

Here are some installation shots of Google’s Chrome browser.

Chrome lacks a lot of things yet, but it’s another open source web browser to watch and try. There is still more room for improvement and browser competition would really spur some innovation of sorts. So, we will expect to see more of increased JavaScript performance, advanced security processing, better web user interface, and other technological breakthroughs in web development.