Google's web browser

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Google’s shiny new Web browser managed to steal the march on the IT news press by announcing its forthcoming new browser. Google could be guaranteed to get lots of attention worldwide for its announcement. The free browser, called Chrome, is supposed to be available for downloading today in more than 100 countries for computers running on Windows. Versions for OSX and Linux are still being worked on.

"Chrome has more tools for Web surfers to cloak their online preferences" says Google. Having had a look at it there is not much difference between Chrome and all the other browsers out there and time will tell where its security holes are. Quite where this will leave Firefox – which ranks as the second most popular browser, and which has been dependent on Google support – is anyone’s guess. Google recently extended its advertising alliance with Firefox through 2011.

Google's web browser is said to be based on an older version of Mac's web browser "Safari".

Chrome has a # of security holes leaving it vulnerable to malicious hacker attacks also researcher have discovered a java bug that tricks Chrome into downloading files without the users knowledge and launching them.

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after reading that i don't think i will be using that anytime soon. Very Happy