1st edition

Has your Firefox lost its fiery wonder? Maybe you have yet to say goodbye to Internet Explorer? Opera isn’t music to your ears and you never liked Apple much to go on its Safari? Well, now Google wants to have a shot and fill your world with Chrome.

“Yes, its a Trojan,” says Stephen Moseley, senior web designer and former aerospace engineer at NASA. “Google are trying to get Google Gears into more homes and on more desktops. Chrome is a Google OS that will allow you to run some web-applications. All the tabs are sandboxed, so Chrome behaves more like an OS. If an app collapses, the whole browser will not fail. Say hello to a Cloud-OS.”

A chrome in every home.

This seems to be a fluent explanation as to why Google have decided to enter the browser wars. But many people have differing theories. “Google introduced Chrome for reasons similar to Apple’s introduction of Safari,” says Emery Jeffreys, Internet wizard at Bright House Networks. “Google Android phones will require a browser.”

I don’t doubt that Chrome will be the browser of choice for the Android, but I’m not sure if this is the primary motive behind the conception of Chrome. Surely, it’d easier for Google to build a mobile-only version of the browser.

“Why let MS or even Mozilla stand between you and your customer?” asks Cole Parker, Director of Product Development at Building Engines. “Ultimately Google needs to push the envelope of what can be done on the web. It isn’t enough to let JavaScript, Flash and HTML define what can be done. If they can get the Chrome on everyone’s computer, they can push better applications to it.”