(TheForceField.Net) September 3, 2008 — Google,Inc. officially released its new web browser yesterday. The new browser, called Chrome, is a two year project to bring Google into a browser market dominated by Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Features of the new browser include Dynamic tags that allow a user to drag a tab out of the browser to create windows, Crash control to prevent a tab from crashing the entire application and Incognito Mode which prevents content from being stored in the browser download and history.
The browser is built on Chromium, an open source project created by Google that contains elements of Webkit, Firefox and a new JavaScript virutal machine called V8. The source code for Chromium is available at http://code.google.com/chromium/ .
Google released a set of videos to showcase the features of Crome . The search giant also released a video from the the production team to tell the story behind Chrome and created a comic to explain the technology behind it.
Although still in beta, Chrome is being released to the public for general use. Chrome is currently available only for Windows XP and Vista. Google reports they are working on versions for Mac and Linux. Users can download Chrome at http://www.google.com/chrome .
