“Google Chrome” joins IE, Firefox, and Safari. (And Opera, if you’re into that sort of thing.) It’s a super-competitive field, partly because browser-makers get paid every time you use the built-in search box.

Google chrome uses the Webkit rendering engine, but has a new, superfast javascript engine (I’d love to see a comparison with the new firefox thing — tracemonkey?) and some novel stability/security measures. It also hooks into google’s cloud supercomputer in a few ways.

This isn’t wikipedia related, but I’m linking to it because

• It’s news-y and cool.
• I feel bad about eviscerating Google’s Knol project, but I’m also right about Google being best at pure engineering. Which Chrome is.
• There’s an explanatory webcomic by Scott McCloud!

Update: The funny thing about this story is that Google is using Microsoft’s marketing tactics against it. They’re re-implementing some features that IE8 already has (like 1-process-per-tab) but passing them off as novel.

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