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Check the new browser which Google has in Beta phase now:

Google is launching a new web browser today that will challenge Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The software, called Google Chrome, is designed to handle video-rich or other complex web programs more quickly than traditional browsers, which were first designed to handle text and graphics.

A beta version will be available to Windows users in 100 countries from today and the internet search leader said it was working on versions for Apple and Linux users.

The launch of Chrome coincides with the recent introduction by arch-rival Microsoft of its Internet Explorer 8 last month.

Internet Explorer holds roughly three-quarters of the browser market, followed by Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari browsers.

Google said its engineers have borrowed from a variety of other open-source projects, including Apple’s WebKit and the Mozilla Firefox open-source browser.

They plan to make all of Chrome software code open to other developers to enhance and expand.

‘We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser,’ said Google’s Product Manager Sindar Pichai and Engineering Director Linus Upson on a blog post.

They said Google Chrome promises to load pages faster and more securely, but also includes a new engine for loading interactive JavaScript code, dubbed V8, that is designed to run the next generation of not-yet-invented applications.

Chrome organizes information into tabbed pages. Web programs can be launched in their own dedicated windows.

It also offers a variety of features to make the browser more stable and secure, according to a comic book guide that was released by accident to a blogger.

Among Chrome’s features is a special privacy mode that lets users create an ‘incognito’ window where ‘nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.’

Mozilla recently introduced its own upgraded browser, Firefox 3, and has collaborated with Google on a variety of technical issues, including a system for reporting software crashes and to make software browsers more secure.

John Lilly, Chief Executive of Mozilla said in a blog post that they would continue to collaborate with Google where it made sense for both organizations, but would also focus on keeping the web open by fostering its own community-developed browser.

via Daily Mail