Google Chrome BETA for Windows released

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Google released their new browser today, Chrome BETA for Windows.

The user agent was reported as: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

I find this interesting not just because the “gBrowser” that everyone predicted long ago is here, but the fact that the user agent leads you to believe that it is built using WebKit, the open-source engine that powers Apple’s Safari.

I am interested to see some benchmarks between Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and IE7 (or IE 8 Beta).

I haven’t used it much yet, but I did use it to compose this post. So it seems functional at least. Whether it is the next killer app remains to be seen, but so far I don’t think that Mozilla has to worry about Firefox losing any market share. Once Chrome is extendible, then maybe. But until then…

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