I made a new category called Dork Alert for me to post geeky stuff in. I figure that instead of trying to hide it I should just run with it. I mean geek is the new black, right?

So I read on Google's Blog that they've released their brand spanking new web browser today! I just downloaded Google's Chrome and I have to say it's pretty spiffy. (I can say spiffy and not get beat up because I've already labeled this a dork post, right?)

There's this cool Google Chrome Comic giving a really long explanation of what's different, but if you have a B.S. in Dorking then you might find it interesting. Reading it took me back to all those computer architecture and operating system classes I took, and also made me wish that more of my education was delivered in comic form.

Google was rumored to be working on an OS, and I think this is it. They're building a web browser so powerful that I can see it taking over the role of what we think of as an operating system (Vista, XP, OSX, Linux). You'll still have the most demanding programs run directly on your computer such as high end games and video editing, but almost everything else will run through a web page. The importance of the OS will decline to the point where it doesn't matter what you're running. Think of any of the many Google products - gmail for instance. It doesn't matter where or what computer you're using, if it has a web browser and an internet connection you're going to see your mail with the same interface from everywhere.

So, short term benefits for normal people are a fast browser that won't crash as much as others if at all. When one web page goes bad, it can only take its own tab down and not all the others. Security is much better and everything is faster. Firefox 3 did a great job of speeding up web page loading, especially the complicated stuff like Gmail and Google Reader, but Chrome goes even farther. I'm a fan. My only annoyance so far is it seems to go nuts with the scroll wheel on my mouse. One click on the scroll wheel and it jumps down a page and a half, but I bet that'll get fixed real quick.

It's going to be a new age of computing, and I'm glad Google is leading the way. If you think this post was bad, wait for my geekgasm when the first Google Android phones get released later this year. I think I should have been a software programmer.