Today Google has released their another beta product – a web browser Google Chrome

Chrome Team says

We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built V8, a more powerful JavaScript engine, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.

More relief and bit tension as a development company with new Google open source web browser.

We downloaded and tested it, looks sleek and different.

Relief from current slow browsers, Google Chrome is very light weighted and faster as promised.

Tension, need one more round of testing for browser compatibility with this new browser and fix CSS and JavaScript issues if any.

We spend most of time with Internet in checking mails, searching, online shopping, reading news, office work, banking - all in a browser. Within half an hour we will end up opening a dozen web pages in couple of browsers (since we don’t know when one hangs)

Now a days, clients are looking for web applications that should work like stand alone applications in browser, with all key events and with advanced mouse events. In order to build rich AJAX based web applications we will be using dojo, extjs, jquery, mootools, scriptaculous, yui, etc JavaScript libraries and write very heavy weight JavaScripts to generate sophisticated effects.

Main hurdles with current browsers are 1) JavaScript runs very slow. 2) If we open couple of tabs, the browser hangs, since it locks up something in other tab.

Chrome mainly addresses these two issues completely. It runs complex web applications very fast, thanks for Google V8 JavaScript Engine. It creates separate process for each tab, so if a tab is busy we can still use other tabs, and if any bug in rendering we can close only that tab.

Firefox hopes to release its new version 3.1 by the end of the year, comes with JavaScript acceleration technology called TraceMonkey. Which claims much more faster than V8. Whatever may be the Browser War, ultimatly we can build faster and safer Enterprice Web Application without any second thought.

Recently we have built a very big web application with ExtJS. At times we thought of converting it to Silverlight, since the grids are not able to handle 500+ rows of data, dynamically with asynchronous reloads. Big forms were taking 6 to 15 secs to load.

Chrome really saves us from it with its fast JavaScript engine. You can check Berend’s example in ExtJS forum, it opens huge form (with 400+ fields) in just < 2 sec in Chrome, amazing. If you look at this example, of course, as said before some CSS need to be changed in skin, to align the dropdown arrow image in left properly.

Or test your browsers' performance with Dromaeo / SunSpider site . Some of Dromaeo saved test results.

So, fellow Designers and Developers modify your CSS and JavaScript to make webpages compatible for new browser, and dear Testers and Clients you too, to find more bugs.