We have enough browsers today: IE, Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Safari.
There is a question: do we need another one?
We have a lot of problems with compatibility, and almost any web-developer spends time on tuning pages for IE/Firefox.

Google Chrome

Chrome developers made a special page describing why they started new 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.”

“On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built V8, a more powerful JavaScript engine, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.”

“We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others – and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well.”
A fresh take on the browser [http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/why.html?hl=en#]

And made comics to describe features: [http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/]

As you see we should have browser with improved speed that will be modern platform for web-applications.
Unfortunately I can’t test it now due to we use GNU/Linux in our company and developers presented only version for Windows.

If you are Windows user maybe it worth a look, and make own opinion.
Go on: [http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/features.html]

Our world is currently in transition from traditional desktop applications to web-oriented where most of time we want to do everything in the Web with help of our browsers.
Sometimes nevertheless we want to use some web-applications like: Gmail, Google docs, FaceBook or on-line dictionary as desktop application. Is it possible ? Try the Prism.

prism world

With Prism you can run web-oriented applications directly on desktop in their own window where they have access to all windows features and you still can access these same applications from your web browser.
Prism is built on Firefox so it supports all rich internet technologies and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Also Prism developers thinking how to integrate better the Prism with Firefox,
enabling one-click “make this a desktop app” functionality that preserves a user preferences.

For more information about Prism go to the project page: [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Prism]
When invoked it is as pretty as following picture:

getting Started with Prism

download and install appopriate version for your platform:

Prism for Firefox v0.2 for Firefox 3.0b3pre or greater, Windows/Mac/Linux.

The standalone version of Prism v0.9 is also available:
for Windows (installer, archive), Mac and Linux.

Mozilla foundation wants for you

Prism is open source project and if you want to help Mozilla with Prism development go to:
[http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism]
forum for discussions: [https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/index.php/board,16.0.html]
Bugzilla for bug reporting: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mozilla+Labs&component=Prism]