In order to make web applications more compelling for the users, Google has invested in developing a much faster, better JavaScript engine that enhances the browser platform.

They believed the commercial requirements of Netscapes sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.

To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suites software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite.

On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.

Instead, on the top right and under the buttons to resize the application window, there are 2 icons -.

This limits the browser chrome so as not to interrupt anything the user is trying to do, allowing web applications to run alongside local software.

As the user types into the address bar, it offers suggestions for searches, top pages the user has visited before and other popular pages.

Chrome shows the user thumbnails for the 9 most visited pages by the user.

In addition, on the right the browser has a text box to search history and a list of recent bookmarks.

Firefox has a similar mode, its under tools then choose Start Private Browsing.

In addition, each Google tab is a separate process that uses (and frees up) its own memory.

These processes are stripped of all rights to write files to the users hard drive or read files from sensitive areas like documents or desktop.

Since plugins may need a higer level of security access to run, some amount of protection is ensured by having them run in a separate process.

In the absence of such a feature, anyone who uses the browser will have access to the stored passwords.

Both Firefox and Google Chrome allow users to view the stored passwords in plain text.

However, Firefoxs Master Password feature prevents unauthorized users to use this feature.

It is an open source engine developed by Google engineers in Denmark and is a significant differentiator from other browsers such as Firefox.

Google claims that their tests have shown V8 to be faster than Firefox and Safari.

Internet industry experts believe that V8 is the key in Googles competition with Microsoft.

Microsoft is strong in the desktop application space and Google is competing with Microsoft by offering SaaS (Software as a Service) i.e.

Internet.

While Microsofts software runs on the computers Operating System, Googles applications run on the browser platform (as do web applications from other companies).

The browsers that provide this platform were not designed with applications in mind.

Rather, they were designed for displaying web pages with some dynamic content.

Operating System platform is an inherent disadvantage for web applications like Googles.

Firefox Vs. Chrome For Mac