The Battle of the Browsers will revive again as the new contender joins in. If you think that we have enough Internet browsers as it is, think again. Google is not going to let Mozilla and Microsoft take all the glory for themselves.

Google Chrome is ready to be released from Google’s arsenal of fast apps on September 2, 2008. This new browser from Google is designed to be fast, simple and clean, just like the Google Homepage. The philosophy behind the development of this new browser is to make things clean and simple, take away all the unnecessary stuff and let the user do the important stuff like browsing, chatting and sending emails. Google Chrome gets out of the way so you can surf the Internet or write those emails. Most of the components in Chrome is from Mozilla Firefox and Apple Webkit, but will remain open-source, and participation from community to help build this new browser is encouraged.

From Chrome’s official blog:

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.

Google also takes the road less traveled in introducing their new app - this time they have used comics in introducing their new open-source browser. Not very typical way of introducing a new app but indeed very unique. The comics about Google Chrome can be found here.

For now, Google Chrome is available only for Windows but time will only tell when there is going to be a version for Linux, which I am willing to wait patiently. As for the number of choices that we have for browsers, all I can say is we can’t have too many browsers. Tell that to web developers as they have another browser to test their sites on.

Author’s Note:

I will update this post once the browser is released. I will also include the link to the download site as well.

Download Google Chome for Windows XP/Vista here.

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Internet Explorer sends a beautiful cake for the Mozilla team, congratulating them for the successful shipping of Firefox 3.

Aww… How sweet!

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PinoyTux gets a new makeover once again!

See the big difference in layout? Thanks to Alving Phang’s Atomic Blogging Theme, I managed to organize the layout of the blog and optimize each space of the blog for better reading layout. The theme also features a nice space for the advertisement boxes on the right and a nice clean interface, not to mention very SEO friendly.

AB Theme is widget friendly so no need to worry about hacking the code to get the look you want for your blog. The theme is also AdSense-optimized for those who are monetizing their blogs. AB Theme works for Linux (big plus for me) and Windows Operating systems with Firefox and Internet Explorer 6 and 7 so no need to worry about readers who use different OS and browsers. It also comes with five different colors so you can choose which color palette you like to use.

All in all AB Theme is a great theme to use if you are a blogger who monetize your website. If you want a copy of this great theme, just subscribe to my email feeds (use the form at the upper right box of this page) and comment to this post so I can send you your own copy of AB Theme.

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I am a loyal Firefox fan and a loyal user for years and so I have seen how Firefox grew and improved. Mozilla does a great job of developing Firefox to the point where it is even with MS counterpart Internet Explorer, if not better, when it comes to usability, stability and performance.
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