Meet Chrome - Google's Windows killer

Google have released their own browser, Chrome (currently available at www.google.com/chrome for Windows - Linux and Mac OS X builds coming soon).

What's cool about this? A lighter, faster, stronger, more resilient browser to begin with.

Firefox and IE chew up a lot of memory. I frequently have the browser lag, jam, or just plain crash on me, especially with a lot of tabs open and accessing sites that make heavy use of java script.

The new Google browser has a process per tab, so one page jamming won't affect the others. It also has its own Javascript VM, V8, with aggressive garbage collection, so it's more memory efficient.

Google are expert at usability and interface design. Like Apple they excel in delighting users - adding all the kind of cool things that you would have added if you'd designed it yourself, rather than had it foisted on you by some mega-corporation.

Around the corner, however, come even richer, more powerful internet applications, making the underlying OS even more irrelevant. Say good bye to your desktop monopoly Microsoft.

I stole my headline from techcrunch. I need a tech section on the blog, I think.