The Team That Develop "Google Chrome"

Google took 6 years to develop their "chrome" browser. The project involves many people with different expertise and extraordinary gifted talents. During the past 6 years, these people come to Google through  hiring or through series of strategic acquisition.

Here's a picture of the team involved:

And here's the fascinating story behind "chrome" great effort and development:

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrome.html

During the great days of Windows (1990s), we always remember names like Brad Silverberg and the bunch of team that created Windows. During the era of the excellent Mac OS X Tiger we remember names like Avi Tevanian.

I wonder who now develop the "boring, dorky" IE ??

Comments

[Debby]

Hi, nice to see u again here Pak. I've tried google chrome, haven't seen the difference between chrome and other browsers :-)

As for the IE, I think that's one of the obstacles to corporate innovation: large organizations can only get excited about something big. As a big company, Microsoft is more likely to be interested in doing more than improving its browser. I dunno...might be. I'm not in a position of defending Microsoft :)

Anyway, nice blog! Hope to see u again in the future.

Cheers.

[Arvino]

Hi Debby,

In my experience, the difference won't be that much if you use Chrome to browse internet pages.

But if you happen to use web-application that have alot of AJAX and JavaScripts, you will probably also feel that page "loading time", "AJAX refreshes" and "scroll-stuff" becomes significantly faster and way way smoother. :-)

This means: no more jagged scrolls, no more slowly windows, and no more longer loading time (waiting for the Javascript to finish executing).

With chrome, in my view, perhaps there are 3 aspects that Google improves:

1. The Javascript processing time. Chrome provides the fastest Javascript processor; and come up with better memory-leak/garbage collector too.

2. The 1-tab-1-process browser model, hence if one "tab" hang it won't ruin the other application tab.

3. The integrated Google Gear offline capabilities.

Chrome is basically built up on the idea to produce the best "application browser" that can run stable online, ready for heavy duty application chore, and would be able to run online and offline.

These kind of original, relevant (and innovative thinking) are the "things" that I saw increasingly missing from the Redmond (Microsoft) camp.

My two cents. ;-)

Look forward to see you and learn from you again in the future yaa.

Cheers,
-Arv

[debby]

Thanks pak, trying to grok all your info, only got little but at least i know they differ somehow. stupid confirmation: it's faster for downloading multimedia, right? I like aspect no. 2 since oftentimes i experienced "hang" stuff with Firefox :-)

You're exaggerating, it's me who took advantages from you :-) but you'll never know though, sometimes you learn from others' stupidity. Thanks. Keep exploring!

Cheers,
deb

[used computers]

The project involves many people with different expertise and extraordinary gifted talents.

[cialis online]

Chromium implements the same feature set as Chrome, but lacks built-in automatic updates and Google branding,, I think that it is one of the best thing that Google has!!22dd!!