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“Google Chrome” is the name; web is the game. Google would make ripples in the web again. This time with a free, open source web browser. It is planned to be released today (2nd September 2008) in over 100 countries. It will be a beta release. Google browser will initially run on Windows but they are planning to develop versions for Mac and Linux as well. Google’s web browser code uses components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox so we can expect a solid browser.

Google Chrome seem to have some great features. Some of what I noticed are;

• Independent tabbed browsing – This feature is suppose to prevent one tab from crashing another. In current browsers if one tab crashes the whole browser has to be restarted. Hopefully this won’t be the case with Google Chrome
• V8 JavaScript engine – This is suppose to be a powerful JavaScript engine that would power the next generation web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers. This sure is a good news for web developers
• Clean and fast – Google Chrome is suppose to be clean and fast. Google says, “It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go”. Speed never seem to be enough for most of us. As such this sure is something I’m looking forward to

Google has released a comic book explaining Google Chrome, Google web browser:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ (read online)
http://books.google.com/books/pdf/Google_Chrome.pdf (download PDF – 1MB)

You can read Google’s official blog about Google Chrome here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

Would you try Google Chrome? Would this be another browser for the list of browser testing for web developers? Would this affect Internet Explorer in a big way? Share your thoughts and comments below.

EDIT (03-Sep-08):
Download:
http://www.google.com/chrome

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