Coming Soon: A Google Browser
Step aside, Trace Adkins and William Gibson. The word Chrome now belongs to Google. Well, at least this week. Google today at 11 a.m. PST releases its first Web browser, called Chrome, and despite the fact that nobody really needs a new browser, pandemonium has erupted. It started Monday, when Google leaked a comic book revealing details. Google Blogoscoped offered blurry screen captures from a briefly public video showing Chrome as if it were evidence of an alien landing or Angelina Jolie infant. As Rough Type points out, Chrome is "the first browser built from the ground up with the idea of running applications rather than displaying pages." Chrome thus is a further attempt to minimize the Windows desktop as an applications platform, says TechCrunch, and the cute comic was "little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft."
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