said by hpguru :

said by Mele20 :

Google's new browser Chrome will be available tomorrow as a beta download for Windows users. Google "has made the move to create and distribute a browser over worry about what new features in IE8 could do to its search business.

That includes privacy changes that could prevent it from collecting information related to the effectiveness of its adds,...

Oh my! We wouldn't want to do that now would we?

Interesting they don't have the same concern about Firefox.

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Mozilla CEO John Lilly today waxed philosophical about the release of Google's new Web browser, Chrome, despite it signalling an attempt by the search giant (Mozilla's major financier) to become its biggest competitor.

Chrome, Lilly says, was inevitable.

"It should come as no real surprise that Google has done something here: their business is the Web, and they've got clear opinions on how things should be," Lilly wrote in his blog today. "Chrome will be a browser optimised for the things that they see as important."

Mozilla and Google have had a long and very fruitful relationship. Google is the default search engine on the Mozilla Firefox browser, and pays Mozilla large sums for the privilege: US$56 million of the US$66 million Mozilla Corporation made in 2006.

But Mozilla CEO John Lilly, writing in his blog, said he welcomed the competition posed by Google. Lilly said Mozilla would continue its financial relationship with Google until 2011 and would continue to work with the search giant on technical collaborations such as crash reports system Breakpad.

Paul Kim, vice president of marketing for Mozilla, said that Google staff would be allowed to continue to contribute to the Mozilla Foundation's projects. "As a 100 per cent open source project, we welcome contributions to Firefox from everyone," he said.

"More smart people thinking about ways to make the Web good for normal human beings is good, absolutely," Lilly said.

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