{"id":528,"date":"2008-09-02T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/528"},"modified":"2008-09-02T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:52:41","slug":"google-chrome-its-here-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/528","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome … it’s here (for Windows)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Downloaded and installed … it’s fast (and one of the easiest installs I’ve seen for any application. Kudos to Google for bucking the trend of awful application installers). <\/p>\n

\"image\" <\/p>\n

The maximized mode is particularly clean — it doesn’t use a Windows title bar at all – so the first browser tab is the element in the upper left corner of the screen.<\/p>\n

As described in the Chrome comic<\/a>, it is using a process for every tab:<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

It would be nice if I could easily tell which browser tab was represented by each process (for memory analysis). I randomly killed one of the processes. When I clicked on the browser tabs, Chrome displayed this in the place of the tab’s content that I had killed:<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

(Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page.)<\/p>\n

:)<\/p>\n

Chrome is available for XP\/Vista only for now and may be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Update: about:memory<\/strong> in the address bar of Chrome takes you to the “stats for nerds”:<\/p>\n

\"image\" <\/p>\n

Or you can right click on the task bar icon, select Task Manager, and click the “Stats for Nerds” link at the bottom of the dialog:<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Downloaded and installed … it’s fast (and one of the easiest installs I’ve seen for any application. Kudos to Google for bucking the trend of awful application installers).   The maximized mode is particularly clean — it doesn’t use a Windows title bar at all – so the first browser tab is the element in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-8w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":518,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/518","url_meta":{"origin":528,"position":0},"title":"Google’s Operating System Announced!","date":"September 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"ReadWriteWeb brings news from on high of a new web browser headed from the hills (or from Google's headquarters). 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