Google Chrome. Personally I think this is really big move by Google. They are completing the circle. Almost all of their applications are web-based applications. Now they are making sure that they run correctly and as fast as possible by having them run in their own specially designed web browser. Everything new in this browser points to the goal of running their own web applications. The focus on fast JavaScript, this it the core of most of their web-based apps. Another is the “application shortcuts”, this one could not be more obvious. They want to make you feel like a web-based application is the same as a desktop application. When you create an application shortcut in Google Chrome, it takes the icon for the shortcut, removes almost all web-like buttons from the app, and looks like a desktop application in your taskbar.
Each tab runs in it’s own process. This is designed to allow you to run more critical applications in your web browser. Maybe like running an important spreadsheet in Google Docs, and not have the whole page lost when a flash game you were playing in another tab crashes.
Google has added a new resource to the webmaster sitemaps tools. This is one of the best things they have added since releasing the sitemap tools. Once you are logged into your google site maps account, and drill down into your website, you will see a new tab called “Links”. This will show internal and external links on your website. Then you can click on a page name to show all the external links pointing to that page. Very interested stuff to look through. It will display the date when it first found the link also.