Not satisfied with its current position, Google decided to launch its own internet browser. During the night, Google announced the future availability of Chrome via a comic explaining in details the project:
- Google Chrome is Googles open source browser project, based on webkit, the same component used by Apple for Safari.
- The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as its such an important component on the web today.
- Google Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome
