While most of the Americans are getting back to work after the labor day (that marks the end of summer), Google blogs about its open source browser, Google Chrome with a comic that explains the whole architecture behind this browser.

I had to wait for all the morning for Google to release the download of Chrome. And yes, it was 12:00 Noon and Google Chrome site started working with a link to download. This browser is getting released simultaneously in over 100 countries and it has various language options too. I saw Hindi in there. 

Chrome uses Google Gears framework and the installation was pretty smooth with no noticeable dialogs to fillup.  The interface looks clean and as many others have noted, the tabs are above the window. There is an option to import all the settings from firefox, which is good. One of the features I like the best is the memory stats that this browser provides. You can use this to see if there is any extension or any tab that leaks memory.

For the nerds, it even has a detailed performance metric that compares with other browsers if they are open. I tried this test with opening the same two pages in Chrome and Firefox and the results are here..

Click on the image to get a bigger version..

And Chrome also allows you to create application shortcuts. Application shortcuts are similar to saving links to your desktop, however, now the links open with a self contained window without any toolbars and such. For those of you who wish GMail was an app or GDocs was an app. You can now create applications for all Google products you like (Maps, YouTube, Calendar, etc) and its not constrained to Google alone, you can do this for any webpage that you like.

Well, I hope browser extensions are allowed for Chrome and I get some good extensions come into Chrome.

Enjoy downloading Chrome guys.. 

Like me, many of us cannot live a day without using atleast one of Google’s products. What surprises me is that, half their products are in Beta and still the usability part of those products are great. I have been one of the first adopters to many of Google Labs products. One such thing was Browser Sync.

I loved the idea to keep my bookmarks and browser history sync’d across computers. I might be researching on something during the end-of-day work hours and would absolutely love to go home, fire up the browser to see the same page open up for me.

Ever since, Mozilla foundation started rolling out the betas and release candidates for Firefox 3, Browser sync started seeing its end of days.. It was not supported for FF3. I waited until Firefox3 was officially released few weeks ago, so that I could check if Google was going to update the plugin. Well Google thought otherwise. I then jumped on to Foxmarks as my next alternative to keep my bookmarks synced.

Today, Slashdot told me that Google’s Browsersync is now opensourced. I am glad that Google did this and appreciate them for that. I for one definitely like to browse the source for this nifty plugin and keep my fingers crossed for someone to expand this with other neat features and support for future browsers.

Google’s Browser Sync Source &  Blog Post about the opensource. Time to code crunch ;-)