Google has a lot of work ahead of it trying to convince more users to switch to its fledgling web browser Chrome. The browser is definitely a lot more polished and feature-rich than it was a year ago and its user numbers are growing at a healthy pace according to Google. But there is another crowd which the company has to win over, a significantly smaller but very important one, web developers. Without support from the web development community it
will be a lot harder for the browser to reach a wider audience so Google is working on giving developers reasons to use Chrome as well by offering a set of Developer Tools, to make their life easier.
“First, our tools benefited from improvements that the WebKit team made to Web Inspector (our developer tools are partially based on Web Inspector). Second, from our end, we recently released the heap profiler and the timeline tab in Google Chrome’s Developer Channel,” Pavel Feldman, software engineer, and Anders Sandholm, product manager at Google, write about the updates to the dev tools.
The first new tool, the heap profiler, allows developers to take a ‘snapshot’ of the JavaScript heap at any point in time. This can be useful for tracking memory usage over time or with different code and should come in handy for the more… (read more)