Just got this news. Google is releasing its own web browser, called Chrome (See screenshot below). They put up this post on their blog after a comic book introducing the new browser started circulating earlier than anticipated. The new browser boasts a lot of new features, one of which is a new and improved JavaScript engine called V8. This news comes just as Mozilla announced that they have created a new Just-In-Time (JIT) JavaScript compiler called Tracemonkey, to replace the current Firefox JavaScript compiler SpiderMonkey, for the next version of firefox. There are other features to the new browser, such as the new privacy mode called 'Incognito' (which is like the InPrivate mode of the new IE8 browser) where your browsing history won't be recorded, and 'Sandboxing' of tabs, which will prevent one tab from crashing all the others (By isolating, or sandboxing tabs).The browser war just got heated, as this new Chrome browser is sure to get widespread usage (coming from google). You can view the comic introducing the new browser here.
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