Google launches shock web browser named Chrome!

02/09/2008 by swordfish.

Google has launched its own web browser, dubbed Chrome, as it looks to displace Firefox and Internet Explorer.

The web giant announced the browser on its blog page, explaining in grand fashion that the launch would help “drive innovation on the web.”

“We realised that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser,” the blog post says. “What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.”

Google is promising to make Chrome an open-source initiative, putting it in direct competition with current open-source favourite Firefox.

Chrome will be available for download from the morning of Wednesday 3rd September, PST. And here’s the link: http://www.google.com/chrome

Source: ‘PC Pro‘

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