I downloaded and test drove the newest entrant into the browser wars, Google Chrome. There is nothing chrome about it. Instead of the traditional gray chrome frame found in the IE and FF browsers, Chrome’s chrome is actually sky blue. At first glance, the browser interface appears lightweight, almost featherweight like it is missing features, pared down, and bare like the traditional Google search interface. The lightness in color of the top portion of the browser makes it appear like it is without a strong anchor like the traditional More»

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Google officially entered itself into the browser wars today. The company launched it’s version and response to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser. Google Chrome is now available for download and offers the following features: one box for everything, new tab page, application shortcuts, dynamic tabs, crash control, incognito mode, safe browsing, instant bookmarks, importing settings, simpler downloads, and download now.
Not everyone sees this move on the part of Google as positive. Developers nor designers will not be happy about having to code and design for yet another browser. It is already a challenge keeping web More»

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Google today announced that it will be launching its very own Web browser tomorrow. The beta version of the open source browser called Google Chrome will be launched in more than 100 countries. The initial release is just for Windows; Mac and Linux versions are being developed. The browser will be free and available for download somewhere. I navigated to the URL, www.google.com/chrome, in the comic book that Google put out explaining Chrome and which served to leak the story and got a 404 error…page not found.
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Mozilla Labs announced the launch Tuesday of Ubiquity, a browser plugin connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.
Ubiquity 0.1:

Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search amazon, google, wikipedia, yahoo, youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; lookup and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax highlight any code you find; and a lot more. Ubiquity “command list” to see them all.

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Mozilla’s latest version of its popular Firefox browser, Firefox 3 (Release Candidate), is available for testing purposes only. So, in the ongoing browser wars between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (version 8 beta available), Apple’s Safari browser, the Opera browser, and Mozilla’s Firefox, who is winning? The Netscape Navigator browser died a slow death and eventually dropped out of the race leaving the others to duke it out. So, who is winning? No surprise, based on Q1 2008 data from Net Applications, IE leads the pack with More»

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With 17 percent of the market and growing, Firefox has been slowly gaining ground on Microsoft’s internet explorer with 75 percent of the market share. Microsoft is down some 4% from a year ago.
Mozilla announced today that Firefox 3.0 beta 4 is now downloadable here, with some 900 (!)enhancements from the previous version.
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