September 3rd Google Officially launched it’s own forey into the browser game. It’s Browser called Chrome is a lightweight, multi-threaded, WebKit based browser. Using the same rendering engine as Apple’s Safari Browser came as a surprise to me as Google has been very friendly to the Mozilla Foundation for years, the makers of Firefox, in fact Google injects a good deal of the foundation’s income through a partnership to have the default Firefox page a Google search page. These technicalities aside I think it’s clear that Chrome is not meant to be your everyday browser. You’ll still use Firefox or IE or Safari for that; what Chrome is meant to do it is provide a sand boxed environment for web applications to run in, so that if an application crashes it only takes that tab with it and not the whole browser.
I think that Google might have started to create something that will be helpful, not right now, but in the near future as companies start to roll out more SAAS applications and the need to run multiple web applications at a time is more commonplace. Currently the only real advantage to Chrome is if you use AJAX heavy web applications where Chrome’s new JavaScript parser “V8″ excels.
Will people use it this way only time will tell.