Google announced yesterday they were entering into the browser wars with Microsoft and Firefox with Google Chrome. Why? They think that web browsers can be even better than they are. The basic premise is that the new Chrome browser will be more stable, faster and deal with the way we interact with the web now, by incorporating multi-process technology similar to the latest operating systems to deal with the many multimedia channels users are now accustomed too. By doing this, it means if one tab crashes with a javascript problem on the page it won’t take down the whole browser, only the tab.

The best thing is it’s open-source. Good news, in the same way i’m a big fan of Flock (based on the firefox platform) i’m looking forward to what can be done with Chrome. It will make a big difference if it does what Google says as we have all experienced the slowdown of firefox when you bloat it up with all the cool plugins.

The Beta has just been released today for Windows, unfortunately us Mac users will have to wait! So go try it and let me know what you think.

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