Google Chrome

A comic book drawn by Scott McCloud probably isn't the best way to stealth-announce a software project. So I'm taking that to mean Google gets how much of a ripple their new web browser might cause. It's named Chrome, it's built on Apple's open source Webkit engine, and it boasts some truly groundbreaking features. For all the interesting goodies presented here, the feature most discussed among the geeks will likely to be its memory management. In brief, each tab/web app will have its own discreet set of processes, (hopefully) making massive memory leaks a thing of the past. We'll see if Google can deliver, but color me excited. (Via ReadWriteWeb.)