Mozilla was the original project name of the popular web browser Netscape Navigator. In 1998 Netscape released the source code for their popular Netscape Communicator, which is a full featured application consisting of a browser, mail client, newsgroup reader, and html editor. With the release of this source code, Netscape helped to establish an organization called Mozilla.org. This organization was an open source project that entails creating free open source applications based around this source code. Since then there have been different browsers or applications released based upon this source code that include Firefox, Mozilla, Camino, and Thunderbird.

Firefox is released purely as a web browser with the team of developers focusing entirely on the browsing experience. Thunderbird is a mail client and newsgroup reader based on the Netscape Messenger application. Camino is a web browser developed for Apple computers and Mozilla is an application that consists of both a web browser, email and newsgroup application, and HTML editor.

Answered by Sharad Singh , an ibibo Master, at 7:27 PM on September 26, 2008

Chrome will feature the Google search box, as Firefox does as part of its Google subsidy, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer features Microsoft search. This is a browser battle in the search market-share war, but a lot more.

Google is making a bid for the many companies and independent developers, who have already appreciated Google’s financing of Firefox as it has increased market share against IE around the world. Chrome, like Firefox, will have its code as open-source, to let developers build a wide variety of plugins as they already have on Firefox.

In terms of interface, Chrome will offer a thumbnailed start page, showing you your nine most visited pages and other, recommended pages. The side of the page will show recently bookmarked pages and searches. Seems like a good spot for some contextually targeted Google ads, too. Google’s search box in Chrome (see top comic) will also feature these related results.

Answered by Abhi Singh , an ibibo Master, at 9:28 PM on September 02, 2008

Google will launch a new browser called Google Chrome.
What's in it :

1. Free and Open Source using components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox or it will include Google’s Gears project: so no one will mentioned about monopoly in web browser market. But Google still benefit in more Google-apps suitable platform.
2. New java-script engine called V8 with separated java script process in one windows browser, which is allow us to manage certain web sites that "eat-to-much" our computer resources. IOW : able to prevent one tab from crashing another. This feature also
3. New Tabs
4.The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features. Called omnibox
5.As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera.

Answered by Nagendra , an ibibo Master, at 7:13 PM on September 02, 2008

well;
Google’s Chrome Browser is not only real, it’s almost available to users for download. According to the Google Blog Chrome will become available for download tomorrow morning in more than 100 countries. The Beta launch of Chrome was announced in an official blog post called A fresh take on the browser.

Answered by Kishore , an ibibo Master, at 6:42 PM on September 02, 2008

Google appears to be getting into the browser game with “Chrome,” its open source project. In a Google-created comic book drawn by Scott McCloud, Chrome is said to be be based on Webkit, include Google Gears, run a JS Virtual Machine, use special tabs, and implement features similar to Opera’s speed dial bookmarks and Mozilla’s web-app program Prism.

Answered by Ashish Yadav , an ibibo Wizard, at 6:01 PM on September 02, 2008

A fresh take on the browser

9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we've now made the comic publicly available -- you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends -- all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff -- the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

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.

This is just the beginning -- Google Chrome is far from done. We're releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we're committed to continuing on their path. We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others -- and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

So check in again tomorrow to try Google Chrome for yourself. We'll post an update here as soon as it's ready.
http://googleblog.blog spot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on -browser.html

Answered by Nishu's , an ibibo Master, at 2:45 PM on September 02, 2008

It is an open-source browser known as Chrome,

New features will included "isolated" tabs designed to prevent browser crashes and a more powerful JavaScript engine.

Having a number of tabs open in a single browser eats up memory. If a browser is running slow, a user's natural inclination is to close a few tabs? In some cases, however, little bits of the closed tabs remain, which eats up space and requires the operating system to grow the browser's address space, according to Google. With Chrome, there will be a different tab for each process, including plug-ins.

"When a tab is closed in Google Chrome, you're ending the whole process," according to the comic. "You can look under the hood with Google Chrome's task mananger to see what sites are using the most memory, downloading the most bytes and abusing your CPU" so you can place "blame where blame belongs."

Google also promised "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," Pichai and Upson wrote.

Like OpenSocial and Android, Chrome will be an open source initiative.

"We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we're committed to continuing on their path," they wrote. "We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others -- and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward."

The team selected Webkit because it uses memory efficiently, was easily adapated to embedded devices, and it was easy for new browser developers to learn to make the code base work, according to the web comic. "Webkit keeps it simple."

Google recently extended its financial deal with Mozilla until 2011, according to a blog post from Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation.

Tuesday's beta release will be available for Windows users. "We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust," Pichai and Upson wrote.

"This is just the beginning -- Google Chrome is far from done," they wrote. "Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better."

Last week, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, which includes improved security and new browsing aids.

Answered by Hem@nt .... , an ibibo Master, at 2:42 PM on September 02, 2008

hi satya .....
Google will launch a new browser called Google Chrome.
What's in it :



1. Free and Open Source using components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox or it will include Google’s Gears project: so no one will mentioned about monopoly in web browser market. But Google still benefit in more Google-apps suitable platform.

2. New java-script engine called V8 with separated java script process in one windows browser, which is allow us to manage certain web sites that "eat-to-much" our computer resources. IOW : able to prevent one tab from crashing another. This feature also

3. New Tabs









4.The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features. Called omnibox
















5.As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera.




for more inf check http://whatshotinweb.blogspot.com/2 008/09/google-chrome-is-googles-ope n-source.html

Answered by raj u , an ibibo Master, at 1:51 PM on September 02, 2008

well,Google’s Chrome Browser is not only real, it’s almost available to users for download. According to the Google Blog Chrome will become available for download tomorrow morning in more than 100 countries. The Beta launch of Chrome was announced in an official blog post called A fresh take on the browser.

Answered by Debashis , an ibibo Master, at 1:40 PM on September 02, 2008