Chromismi - 2
Copincollo e commento un po’ di informazioni su Chrome tratte da Wikipedia.
Security / Blacklists : Chrome periodically downloads updates of two blacklists (one for phishing and one for malware) and warns users when they attempt to visit a harmful site.
Vabbé, questo lo fanno tutti i browser, dai.
Each tab in Chrome is sandboxed to "prevent malware from installing itself" or "using what happens in one tab to affect what happens in another".
Etc. etc., anche qua nulla di nuovissimo, mi pare.
for example malicious software running in one tab is unable to sniff credit card numbers, interact with the mouse or tell "Windows to run an executable on start-up" and will be terminated when the tab is closed.
Beh, ma questo se con altri browser capita è un "security flaw", non è una feature esplicitamente inserita, no? E fino a prova contraria nemmeno gli aggeggi Google sono a prova di security flaw…
Speed / JavaScript : Tests by Google show that V8 is about twice as fast as Firefox 3 and the Safari 4 beta.
Uh, fico. Certo, se i test li avesse fatti qualcun altro forse era meglio. Ma non c’è motivo di dubitare.
Several websites have performed benchmark tests using the Sunspider JavaScript Benchmark tool. They unanimously report that it performs much faster than all competitors, including Safari, Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8. While Opera has not been compared to Chrome yet, in previous tests, it has been shown to perform a bit slower than Firefox 3, which in turn is slower than Chrome.
Ah, ok.
Stability / Multiprocessing : The Gears team were considering a multithreaded browser (noting that a problem with existing web browser implementations was that they are inherently single-threaded)
Uh, ottima cosa.
and Chrome implemented this concept with a multiprocessing architecture similar to the one developed by Opera in 1994
Ahah, stoccatina 
A separate process is allocated to each task (tabs, plugins, etc.), as is the case with modern operating systems.
Ha ragione M.P., è il primo passo verso il sistema operativo virtuale d’altronde lo stesso M.P. mi riportava un quote simile giorni fa: "iTunes è un ottimo sistema operativo, gli manca solo un player audio decente"
This prevents tasks from interfering with each other, which is good for both security and stability;
Sono un po’ San Tommaso: finché non vedo, non credo. Voglio vedere un tab andare in crash e gli altri continuare a funzionare bene. Senza rallentare, senza comportarsi in modo strano. A quel punto, tanto di cappello. No, perché ’sta cosa la promettono da Internet Explorer 4: di passi avanti se ne sono fatti, ma…
Task Manager : Chrome features a process management utility called the Task Manager which allows the user to "see what sites are using the mostmemory, downloading the most bytes and abusing [their] CPU" (as well as the plugins which run in separate processes) and terminate them.
Urca. Questa cosetta è spettacolare. Davvero.
User interface, Omnibox, Tabs, etc. : bla bla bla
Appunto. Bla bla bla. Solo una cosa: ma ’ste linguettone in alto, non saranno bruttarelle sui desktop (con barra in alto) di Mac OS e di Gnome/KDE?
Gears : Chrome includes Gears which adds developer features that may or may not become web standards, typically relating to the building of web applications (including offline support).
Uhm. Quel "may or may not become web standards", chissà perché, mi ricorda Microsoft e IE, con tutte le "proposte di standard". /me storce il naso.
Popups : Popup windows "are scoped to the tab they came from" and will not appear outside the tab unless the user explicitly drags them out. It is not clear whether they also run in their own process.
Carino, il fatto che si possa scegliere. Ora lo provo…
Web applications : Web applications can be launched in their own streamlined window without the Omnibox URL box and browser toolbar. This limits the browser chrome so as not to "interrupt anything the user is trying to do", allowing web applications to run alongside local software (similar to Mozilla Prism, Adobe AIR and Fluid).
Uhu. Questa mi sa che non l’ho capita del tutto…