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Google got a little premature in their introduction of their new browser project, Google Chrome, by releasing a comic about it. However, they went ahead and made it official on their blog and announced that it would be released sometime today. The goal of Chrome is to design a browser that is geared toward the use of web applications rather than just continuing the purpose of browsers which were written before web applications became popular. It’ll have a sandbox option for tabs which will prevent a crashing tab from bringing down the entire browser application. They have also redone the JavaScript engine, called V8, to be able to carry out tasks that are not even possible currently. This project is open source and borrows from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox. It has not be released as of this posting, but I will make an edit when it becomes available.

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Full Article: Google Blog

Mozilla is setting up to attain a Guinness world record for the most downloads in a 24 hour period when it launches Firefox 3.0 in mid to late June. In preparation, Mozilla has set up a world record promotion page to encourage download parties and download pledges. Also on Tuesday, Mozilla released the second release candidate of Firefox 3.0 in response to 10 performance and stability bugs. Firefox 3.0 has come a long way since the 700 bugs it contain in November 2007 when it also faced rumors that it would ignore bugs in order to release the browser on time.

Sounds like a lot of fun, hope they get the record. I know I’ll be downloading it when it is released. I’ve tried the beta and it is great, but I am holding off until all my extensions are supported which should be by the time it is release.

Full Article: The Register