Matt Bowcock // mbowcock.com

Google announced it intends to release its own open source web browser called Chrome on Tuesday (Sept. 2).  The announcement came after Google accidently posted a comic book detailing the plans.  You can view the comic book on Google Books.  I wonder how the name came about since Google has been a big supporter of Firefox and Firefox already uses a technology called Chrome?

Theres a link in the comic book to – www.google.com/chrome – that doesn’t appear to work right now but I assume it will on Tuesday.  Looks like the website might actually be – gears.google.com/chrome – although I don’t think it will be available until after a 2PM Eastern webcast from Google.

In searching for a place to download Chrome I stumbled on a post at zwadia.com – Assessing Google Chrome – that I found interesting.