It appears that Google has released a beta version of its newly developed browser, code named Google Chrome. It should be downloadable by tomorrow on Sept 3rd.

However I soon found out that this release is only accessible currently to 100 countries only, so I have to wait if it is available here tomorrow.

The news was ‘leaked’ out yesterday in Google’s own blog and according to the blog, the open source browser will be ‘clean, fast, and it gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go’.

Sounds good already. Here’s a screenshot courtesy from Crunchbase:

Some of the features of Google Chrome browser reported:

• Tabbed browsing where each tab gets its own address bar and separate process. This means if the current tab crashes it would not take the whole browser with it.
• Includes Google Gears.
• An Opera-like tab page where you can view nine recently viewed webpage in thumbnail and can be ‘dragged out’ to create a new tab itself.
• ‘Incognito mode’ feature which basically lets you surf anonymously and privately without storing your sessions information such as cookie. Similar to Safari’s ‘Private Browsing’ feature.
• Support for web applications type apps, such as Adobe’s AIR.
• New javascript engine that is built ground up and optimized for speed.
• Malware and phishing option built in that updates automatically.

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