Google Browser is coming

The much-rumoured Google Browser is a complete browser built on top of WebKit WebKit. an that, it will offer integration with many Google services, such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Blogger, and likely Google Talk.

A Google Browser would give the Mozilla platform instant credibility and would be a big hit. if Google offered a browser that was as powerful and easy to use as their search engine and didn’t scum up their system, they’d download it.

Last summer, Anil Dash suggested that it would be a good move for Google to develop a Google browser based on Mozilla develop a Google browser based on Mozilla.

Not Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook of Microsoft’s Office or iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie, iTunes, and Garageband of Apple’s iLife suite, but Google search, Gmail, Google Browser, Blogger, and perhaps even GIM. It’ll be interesting to watch whether this happens or not.

Update: John Rhodes floated the idea of a Google Browser floated the idea of a Google Browser back in September 2001. Quick tip for the next time they want to write this story: Google just became “Google’s browser labs” after giving Mozilla a good long run at it.

Continuing to support Firefox fully would mean further reliance on Mozilla”s not screwing up a good thing.

Google Chrome - Download a new browser You need a JavaScript-capable browser to download this software.

As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome.

We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers. We’re releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible.

Instead of developing a new browser, I would like to see Google releasing the browser as a re-packaging of Mozilla.

If they propagated a Mozilla-based browser such as Firefox to their users. If Google was to push a site linked to XUL apps in a gecko-based browser, they could start owning the desktop outright.

Back in July Dare Obasanjo noted on one of his blog posts that Google was hiring a bunch of people from the IE browser team and couple of Java guys from Sun.

Google may choose to go with firefox due to the already existing user base and code but doing something along the lines of Safari is certainly an option that must be considered (and considering googles history is something I’m very interested to see). Look at the evidence so far, they have a former lead Java guy from Sun, also The company also hired four people who worked on Microsoft’s Web browser, Internet Explorer, and later founded their own company.

ServeYourWorld ServeYourWorld writes “The New York Post is reporting New York Post is reporting that ‘Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft.’ The fact is that google is everyones favorite company so we’re rooting for it to get into the front lines of the browser wars, the place where Microsoft is considered most vulnerable by the geek population.

For the browser, all of Google’s tools will be integrated. Think about this: spell checking when you post, the ability to click on “blog this (already available on Google’s tool bar), interrelated Gmail, possibly image searching on your computer and on the internet simultaneously.

mozilla day, Mozilla, which is “open source” and available to anyone, could be shaped to Google’s specifications and be embedded with Google search, Gmail free e-mail and other Google applications. While I was reading this comic I wasn’t sure what amazed me more, the interesting things I was learning about the technical design of Chrome (the Browser), or the fact that I was enjoying learning about the technical design of Chrome from comic characters.

Stefanie Olson also writes on Sfgate.com that Google might be working on a browser.

NY Post (they’re never wrong!) is speculating is speculating that Google will launch a web browser based on the fact that they’ve hired a half-dozen key hires in recent weeks.

If the Google browser is good, free, and has no or only Google text ads, and has lots of features, I’ll switch, or not.