Google increases the competition on the browser market with the release of their new browser, Google Chrome. The long-awaited browser by Google is currently in Beta, and its code is open-source, allowing anyone to make changes and compile their own version. The engine behind Google Chrome is the open-source framework named WebKit.

One of the most noticeable differences between Google Chrome and the other browsers on the market is that it's multi-threaded, using a different process for each tab. This prevents the entire browser from becoming unresponsive when one of the tabs is taking time with JavaScript code or other plugin. Also, when the tab is being closed memory leaks are no longer a problem, since the process running that tab gets closed and the operating system is then responsible for releasing the memory. This is similar to how Internet Explorer 6 used to work, but Google Chrome uses tabs instead of separate windows.

Google Chrome also offers features of interest to developers, similar to the Firebug plugin, and a task manager where "nerds" (as called by the nonconformist application) can view the memory, CPU and network usage of each tab.