Chrome, the lean and simple web browser from Google will be made available for Linux and Mac OS X as well, in the Q1. This should be no big deal as the rendering engine Webkit Chrome originates from these plattforms, the khtml implementation of KDE. Availability of the Google Browser for other platforms would be just another contribution to the current trend of operating system indifference, not to mention the cloud sphere. Some commentators hyped Chrome as a the Cloud platform but it looks more likely that Google will support all browsers for its cloud applications. Firefox also gets financed by the search company, Apple’s web browser Safari uses virtually the same rendering engine.
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