Google is going to launch an open source web browser which will compete with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and all the existing browsers. Googlers have claimed that the browser is lightweight and fast, and is fully able to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia. It is also likely to accelerate the Google’s rich web applications projects. The name of that browser will be Chrome. Initially beta version is to be launched in 100 nations. The beta version will work only on Windows platform, but soon Google will launch next versions that would work on Mac and Linux platforms also. Experts are expecting a new browser war with the launch of Google’s Chrome.

“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,” Mr Pichai, Google VP Product Management

I don’t talk about the market share of IE and Firefox in Internet. I only see the traffic of my blog and get the data. See the table below. Around (56.72 + 35.15) % users are having IE and Firefox. So I believe after the launch of Chorme, their percentage will definitely decrease. It may also end the monopoly of Microsoft in the Internet browser’s market.

One more Question How Internet Browser Works ?

Let’s see the answer. Web browsers communicate with Web servers by using HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) to fetch webpages. HTTP allows Web browsers to submit information to Web servers as well as fetch Web pages from them. Web Pages are located by means of a URL (uniform resource locator), which is treated as an address, beginning with http: for HTTP access. The file format for a Web page is usually HTML (hyper-text markup language) and is identified in the HTTP protocol using a MIME content type. Most browsers natively support a variety of formats in addition to HTML, such as the JPEG, PNG and GIF image formats, and can be extended to support more through the use of plugins. The combination of HTTP content type and URL protocol specification allows Web page designers to embed images, animations, video, sound, and streaming media into a Web page, or to make them accessible through the Web page. Early Web browsers supported only a very simple version of HTML while Modern Web browsers support a combination of standards- and defacto-based HTML and XHTML, which should display in the same way across all browsers.