Google's new Javascript JIT compiler V8 gets benchmarked and compared to both current and upcoming Javascript engines.

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)
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Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

Google Chrome is here and it's blinding fast. Its open source project is called Chromium and includes extensive documentation on the internals of the browser.

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Quick facts on Google Chrome

Google has stealth-launched Chrome, a new open source browser, by sending a comic to a few journalists. Quick technical facts:

• Based on Webkit, but using a custom regression and testing system.
• OS-level address separation between the loaded sites/tabs. This is described as running multiple processes, so you get the full memory and system resources back after you close the tab.
• Processes run inside a sandbox with varying trust levels for extra protection. The browser includes a process manager.
• Since plugins cannot be sandboxed efectively they run inside a dedicated process .
• A new Javascript virtual machine named V8. It does JIT compilation, it's aware of object prototypes and has a strict, incremental garbage collector.
• Google Gears is included by default.

On the user interface side:

• The address bar is below the tab bar like in Opera.
• Full drag and drop, detachable tabs like in Safari.
• Fancy completion support in the address bar.
• A tiled view for new, empty windows/tabs, similar to Opera.
• Popups are launched in a minimized state inside the tab that created them, and can be dragged out when needed. This alone could be the killer feature for Chrome.

Update: official announcement of a beta version:

We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

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