Google Chrome launches browser war tomorrow

Mozilla’s recent launch of Firefox 3 has a record-setting debut day in mid-June, with 8.3 million downloads of Firefox 3 in 24 hours.

Google recently renewed its deal with Mozilla that puts its search engine as homepage and search bar default to 2011. Google then pays Mozilla royalties for Google ad clicks that come from Firefox searches. - All Things Digital

clipped from kara.allthingsd.com In its most frontal and aggressive attack on Microsoft yet, sources with knowledge of the project said Google is preparing to unveil a new browser–ready for download to users as early as tomorrow–to try to loosen Microsoft’s iron grip on the most important piece of software to navigate the Internet. In addition, Google Blogoscoped has published a comic book that Google is apparently using to explain the technical aspects of its open-source browser, which is called Chrome. [UPDATE: Here is a post on Google's official confirmation of the browser launch in 100 countries tomorrow, which was released on its blog this afternoon. It will only be in beta in Windows, but Google said Mac and Linux versions were coming soon.]