Multiple profiles looks nice. Hopefully cookies are segregated so I can easily keep multiple Google accounts open. Edit: profiles appear to be completely different sessions, which is awesome.
That wouldn't make any sense anyway. You'd have to keep separate cookies per tab, but tabs have no identification for persistence.
So you open two gmail accounts, one in each tab. Close them both. Open a new gmail tab, which account will you be in? The logical conclusion is that, in your scenario there are no cookies written to disk.
With profiles, each profile has its own set of cookies and you are deliberate with respect to the profile you are in. Cookie behavior is well defined, predictable.
Thank you for the explanation. I'll look forward to the new profile support. I'm starting to need to be in more than one Google account simultaneously; the timing is fortunate, for me.
I can't wait. I sometimes switch to xp on virtualbox to use it as it's so much faster than firefox. It's not the raw speed, its the process per tab. It makes a huge difference when you have multiple heavy ajax apps open all day long.
Google also included its own HTTP network code in this new version, which, according to the release notes, was necessary to move ahead with the Mac and Linux versions of Chrome.
I noticed in one of the screenshots that quarterly releases are considered stable. That and the ridiculously fast incrementing of version numbers seems to indicate that
(1) they're continually tracking another project a la Gnome/Ubuntu -- presumably WebKit,
(2) everyone in the company is spending their 20% time on Chrome,
(3) they're planning to surpass Firefox's version number this summer and eventually catch up to IE and Opera in a couple of years, and
(4) the original code was very Windows-specific and porting to Mac and Gtk+ is really a lot of work.
Google is running the version printing presses around the clock; expect further inflation.
I suspect they'll want to reach vague parity with FF '3' and Safari '3'. (IE users don't care so much about version numbers; to them the browser is just 'the internet'.)
Google seems to be very aggressive with it's browser strategy. Chrome has to be their most active project -- from beta launch to version 1 to version 2 beta - all in four months.
