Google launches a new browser
I always wondered what happened when you got a bunch of geniuses, gave them free catered lunches, bean bags, and Foosball, and let them go nuts. Apparently, what you get is Google Chrome. I'm very much looking forward to seeing this new browser come out. It'll be great if they can make programming Web applications a bit less of a hassle (which is obviously in Google's interest as well).
I don’t think they’re planning to make web programming any less of a hassle – they can’t without breaking compatibility with HTML and JS.
What they’re trying to do is design it so that the browser runs the same AJAX applications, just much better. From what I’ve read the focus is on a much improved JS engine and tab isolation.
Their web development package is pretty huge and current browsers look sluggish when trying to run it. Joelonsoftware had an article just about that a while back:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html