Very cool stuff in a big and technically demanding project. 1) Sites, tabs, and plugins as OS level processes. 2) Automated testing based on pagerank 3) WebKit 4) Advanced JS VM 5) Properly detachable tabs 6) Complex sandboxing 7) Google tools and services integrated
You know, I've been meaning to write a blog post about the gripes I've got with Google. Poor design skills, f'rinstance. But I've found that I can't honestly depict that stuff, not well. This project reminded me why: it's because despite shortcomings, Google still has a talented, ambitious core of people with a good mind for what would be GOOD for the Internet. I have high hopes for this.
We've yet to see what kind of interfaces if any there are for customizing the browser. The plugins that the comics discuss are like the Adobe Flash plugin and not like the flashblock Firefox extension.
"Plugins" in the documentation seemed to suggest JVM and Flash-like plug-ins. And sure, you can fork it, but then I'd argue that it isn't the Google Chrome Browser and regular users won't use it. :)
The team was Lars Bak and Kasper Lund, both apparently employees of Google. It was probably a separate team Google set up, good way to keep a start-up style approach to projects.
