The current struggle for internet browser supremacy has primarily been a fight between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla, with secondary roles by Opera Software’s Opera web browser and Apple’s Safari web browser. The battle lines haven’t changed a great deal in the past several years, although Internet Explorer has slowly been losing ground to Firefox. The future of the browser war looked to continue in much the same fashion until Monday September 1, 2008. Google, the internet search company, announced that it would release a new, open source web browser called Chrome on Tuesday September 2, 2008. This move may have a serious impact on the current struggle for browser supremacy and could possibly be the beginning of the end for internet browsers as we know them.

For more information and links on this news, check out my post on Compujurist at
http://compujurist.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-takes-on-microsoft-and-mozilla/