Perhaps the Most Significant Chrome Feature in the Long Run...

Kevin Maney writes: Google's Chrome browser has been out for a few hours and comments and reviews are starting to pop up on the Web -- including a review from Walt Mossberg that compares Chrome to Microsoft's IE8. That review is valuable because it gives a side-by-side sense of where the two new browsers come up essentially even (in a lot of ways, actually) and where Google pulls ahead.

While watching Google's unveiling, I felt an instant jolt when the Google geeks running the show talked about the task manager-type function in Chrome. It allows you to see how each Web site you have running is performing, and what kind of memory and processing time each site is eating up in your computer. This should be great for seeing what the heck is making your laptop run like syrup, and giving you the option of shutting it down.

Blogger John Resig make a bigger point. This feature could expose the resource-hogging Web sites, forcing them to streamline the way they interact with users' computers. Over time, this could help the whole Internet run better.

 
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