Between hurricanes and hericanes, you could easily have missed the technology news. Released yesterday in public beta, Google Chrome is a standards-compliant web browser created to erode Microsoft’s browser dominance (i.e. to boost Google’s web dominance) while also rethinking what a browser is and does in the age of web apps and Google’s YouTube.

The new browser is based on Webkit, the advanced-standards-compliant, open source browser engine that powers Apple’s Safari for Mac and PC, but Chrome currently runs only in Windows. You figure that out.

Here are the new browser’s terms of service.

And here’s an important early bug report from Jeremy Jarratt: Google Chrome wrongly displays alternate styles as if active, thus “breaking” websites that use them. (Here’s more about alternate style sheets, from Paul Sowden’s groundbreaking 2001 A List Apart article.)
read the article on www.zeldman.com

A cool presentation from http://chris.pirillo.com about the new Google Chrome.
This guy likes the same thinks that we all like: chrome speed, efficiency, clean and open source.

http://www.youtube.com/user/lockergnome
http://live.pirillo.com - In a few short hours from the time this was recorded, we all had our hands on Google Chrome. I feel this is a game changer in the way the World Wide Web works. I made up a list of five reasons that Chrome will soon become your default browser.

Google’s Chrome overpowers the other browsers on the five subtests by which Google measures its browser’s JavaScript performance. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)

10 features of Google Chrome in one video file hosted on YouTube:

* One box for everything
* New Tab page
* Application shortcuts
* Dynamic tabs
* Crash control
* Incognito mode
* Safe browsing
* Instant bookmarks
* Importing settings
* Simpler downloads

Here is a video from the development team on the thinking and features behind the Google Chrome.