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Google Chrome: Browser Wars 2008

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

The browser war continues to heat up with Google jumping in in a big way. I suspect that we’ll see some market share taken from both Mozilla and Microsoft with Microsoft having the most to fear. Google has much better brand recognition with the late adopter crowd then Mozilla does.

I’m really looking forward to giving Chrome a try. I enjoy Firefox but 3.x has been a little buggy and there is always room for competition. The good news is that the current browser wars focus on standards so it doesn’t effect web developers as much as it use to. Back in the Netscape and IE 4 days, that was a real nightmare.

One area that Chrome is focusing on is JavaScript speed. This is what I find most intriguing as it’s no secret that Marketing for Mavens relies heavily on JavaScript. The faster the JavaScript speed, the quicker we can retrieve your content from the database and display it in your web pages. This is something I’ll be testing as soon as I can get my hands on the download which will hopefully be later today.