There is already cut throat competition in the browsers space. Microsoft baby Internet explorer is struggling to retain its monopoly in this space. It commands approx 75% share but MS IE is being pushed by Firefox and Safari. Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari comes at second and third respectively.

In the meantime, Google has announced new browser named ‘Google Chrome’. Public trial of this browser will start shortly but it would be launched for MS Windows operating system first.

Google has mentioned that this browser will be boon for video-rich applications like “www.utube.com” (Web application for video sharing, owned by Google) rather than conventional browser capability on text and graphics.

Google will be working on Chrome versions for Macintosh OS and Linux. It has to be noted that Microsoft launched version 8 of Internet explorer last month. Mozilla also launched version 3 of Firefox couple of months back.

As per the Google’s website, Chrome organizes information into tabbed pages. Web programs can be launched in their own dedicated windows. It also offers a variety of features to make the browser more stable and secure. It also includes a new engine for loading interactive JavaScript code, “dubbed V8“, which is designed to run the next generation of not-yet-invented Web applications. Google Chrome promises to load pages faster and more securely.

Internet explorer (IE) is being shipped as default browser with Windows OS. Windows OS is preferred operating system for most of the domestic users as well as corporate users. Microsoft IE is known for it’s war with Netscape Navigator. Netscape was the first popular browser in Internet history but became history now. Lets see which browser will go in to the history. We want return of the Jedi for this cyber space war.