Google to release new browser today

Google is going to release a new browser sometime today, which has been announced in the past day. I’ve read the 30odd page comic book style explanation of Google Chrome, and I must say I am very impressed. It seems they have seriously thought about all sorts of things, including, sandboxing. Which i’m very excited about. Currently only IE7 (and do any kind of sandboxing, and only on Vista. Mozilla Firefox is not expected to be sandboxed until Firefox 4! So this is a big big security improvement. I’m also excited by the new process based system, where each tab gets its own process. So if something in that tab makes it crash, you don’t lose the whole browser!

So I’m going to be downloading and installing this beta as soon as it comes out, as it looks very very exciting. There’s currently no Google Chrome page, but I assume that will arrive later today, in the meantime see:

Google Blog Post on Chrome