And Behind Curtain Number 4: Google's Chrome Browser

So, the lion's share of Internet browsing (excluding mobile devices like phones, etc) has been done on various versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari in the past couple of years. Well, recently, Google has given some hype to its own new browser.

Reading about it, I've found it interesting to see also how the browser will incorporate cookies and ad integration to protect its very business model. It is, after all, a strange situation to know that over 70% of the access to your core web services is taking place on a rival's browser (Microsoft's Internet Explorer).

I am intrigued. And as a web developer, I know that this means yet one more browser we're going to need to test to see how it renders our pages and handles our web applications. I'm looking forward to seeing if the new features that Google brings to the browser world make it worth all that.

So here's the link they just posted if you'd like to download the beta and check it out, too.

On the Road,
Eric J. Reid

9/3/08 Addendum: Here's another recent review on CNN that gets into the debate regarding "what slows down and/or crashes your browser when you have multiple tabs open".