At Google, they have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to their engineers, it apparently applies to the mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, they hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing their new open source browser, Google Chrome. As they believe in access to information for everyone, they’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. They will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome in more than 100 countries.Google’s Press Release and product description So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.Google spend much of their time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, they began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if they started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. Realizing that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that a fresh approach is needed to completely rethink the browser. On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.This is just the beginning — Google Chrome is far from done. We’re releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we’re committed to continuing on their path. We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others — and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.
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