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September 05, 2008

Chrome and Ubiquity - Two New Stabs at Better Browsing

Control of the desktop browser market (or at least a chunk) continues to be a big focus of some of the major players on the Internet:  Mozilla (the open source foundation), Microsoft, Google and to a lesser extent Apple, Opera and other smaller % players.  The latest salvo has been fired off by Google with the release a few days ago of their Chrome browser.  If you're not familiar with Chrome, I think the comic book introduction actually does a great job of highlighting the differentiators, the architecture and generally why you should care.I've been using Chrome for a bit now and have to say that I'm initially impressed.  I think Amith (our usability wizard) is a fan as well.  I've been using Chrome with Trading Grid Online, for example, in advance of qualification testing--they aren't kidding about client-side javascript performance improvements from what I can tell. 

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