It’s true, it’s true.  All anyone has been talking about today is the latest and greatest from the online Interweb beast we call Google.  Of course, it’s only being talked about online and not so much because we’re actually interested, but because it’s the thing to do.

Chrome is Google’s newest piece of potential greatness and it’s coming in the form of a top notch web browser, but we’re mostly left saying “so what?”.  Even if Chrome wasn’t going to be the fastest most secure browser on the market (which it will be), people like us would still take it for a spin and be in awe of its features because that’s the type of fanfolk we are — we love new tech and we really love it from Google.

The truth of the matter is, Chrome is likely to take market share from Firefox than Internet Explorer.  As it is now, more than half the Internet surfers are still using some crippled version of IE, which is to say, “if Firefox is clearly the superior browser then why aren’t more people using it?”  I’m guessing it has something to do with regular people being less than bothered by their current default browser. And this upsets me because we’re on the verge of having really awesome web browsers, except most people are a long way from using them.  THAT drives me crazy.

Except, thankfully, Google isn’t interested in entering the web browser world so much as it is interested with ensuring a high-quality platform for its many cloud service products (smartly so.)  So they’ve written and tested loads of code, including the very important V8 javascript engine, to help along the current scene. Regardless of whether or not Chrome catches on and is adopted by everyone, the source is Open so that both Firefox and IE can take the highlights from Chrome and improve their browsers.  At least they will if they know what’s good for them.

Chromed-Out Google Browser, And No One Cares was first posted to justinll.com on September 1, 2008.