A few months after Mozilla’s launch of Firefox 3.0… and while Microsoft beta-tests Internet Explorer 8.0… Google plans to release its own web browser, Google Chrome.

Described on the Official Google Blog, as well as in a comic book (yes, really), Google Chrome is an open source browser designed to “add value for users” and “help drive innovation on the web”. Some of its features include:

• A streamlined, simple browser window;
• Keeping tabs in “sandboxes” so that rogue websites will only be able to crash a given tab rather than the entire browser; and
• A more powerful JavaScript engine to power next-generation web applications that aren’t possible in today’s browsers.

Google Chrome will shortly be available in beta for Windows users, with versions for Mac and Linux not far behind. Visit the Google Chrome site to see if its ready (it wasn’t at the time of writing) and check out the Google Chrome comic book for more details about the browser:

==> Google Chrome

==> Google Chrome comic book

Source: Sundar Pichai, “A Fresh Take On The Browser”, Official Google Blog, September 1, 2008

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