There’s a new web browser on the block. Google has introduced
Chrome, a new browser that is being hailed, perhaps a bit
prematurely, as superior to Internet Explorer and Firefox with
regards to speed, stability, and security. Google Chrome is a bit
different from the others. It behaves less like your average desktop
application and more like a thin, simple picture frame around the web
sites you visit.
With Chrome, Google is responding to the fact that many of today’s web
sites, from online banks to retailers (and of course, NextMark), are
really complete applications in their own right that need to be secure
and responsive. They may even need to continue to work if your
internet connection goes down. The web browser used to display the web
site needs to get out of the way and be as invisible as possible while
still making sure that the web site follows the rules of security and
generally "plays nice".
At NextMark we’re excited to take advantage of what Google Chrome has
to offer, and we’d like to offer official support for it and for other
web browsers in the near future. We’ve taken it for a test drive, and
we encourage others to do the same. However, Google Chrome is still
beta quality, meaning that it is still rough around the edges and,
despite claims to the contrary, might crash on you. Use (and enjoy) at
your own risk!