Google's Chrome : A doorway to web

In the ongoing war for Internet users' eyes and wallets, search giant Google on Tuesday unveiled a shiny new Web browser that it hopes will lure users away from Microsoft's Internet Explorer — and bolster Google's lucrative online advertising and applications business as well.
Google Chrome will be free, open source and, at least for the time being, limited to Windows users. A beta version for Windows should be available for testing early Tuesday afternoon. Google says that it’s already hard at work on Mac and Linux versions, but hasn’t offered a timeline for either.
Chrome is a browser built to empower web applications. It features a new approach to page rendering that isolates web applications inside each of the browser’s tabs — a crashing web app might cause a single tab to crash, but that won’t affect anything outside that tab. The rest of the browser remains stable.
Today I also downlaoded chrome and checked it, and finds that it ahs some great features.

• More stable and better at running complex web applications - it isolates web pages with errors, so users can close only the flawed pages without having to shut down the entire application.
• Better protection from rougue websites.
• Open-source software - can be further developed and improved by independent programmers.
• Powerful JavaScript engine, called V8, to run the next generation of web applications.
• Last but not the least, Chrome's looks.

It's not the first time someone has challenged Microsoft's browser, which became the market leader after a bruising battle with then-rival Netscape in the 1990s. And although they mostly shied away from criticizing Microsoft on Tuesday, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin acknowledged they wouldn't mind ending the giant software maker's dominance in the field.

Actually this is not a war, as many of the site and blog say, even the newspaper headings are almost the same, "Browser War." Google just realeases its browser with some fear from Microsoft, nothing else. After Microsoft introduced IE 7 in 2006, Google complained that the browser's searchbox favoured Microsoft's search service. Microsoft responded and made modification. So to avoid such situation Google introduced its own browser to make a presence in this area, being a internet gaint.One can easily downlaod chrome from http://www.google.com/chrome , its free.