[Update - 02.09.08] – (18.03pm GMT)

It seems, Scott McCloud was the illustrator commissioned to draw the 38-page comic which outlines the features of Google’s Chrome web browser.

Original Article:

Google today announced, they had intentions to enter the fierce competition between internet web browser manufacturers, by introducing it’s own. Chrome, will be the big G’s new, open-source, web browser …

Among the features announced:

- New JavaScript engine called V8 for faster performance
- “Special tabs” above the window, not below the address bar
- Address bar auto-completion
- Opera-like “Speed Dial” with thumbnails of your most visited 9 websites
- Privacy mode
- Web apps can be launched in their own window without addressbar/toolbar

The browser will run on the same technologies as Apple’s Safari currently does by incorporating the Web Kit interface.

Google has taken a new slant on advertising it’s browser, publishing a comic-styled walk through over at AllThingsD. The browser will initially be offered for Windows only, but Mac and Linux versions are on the way.

Via: All Things D / Mac Rumors / The Google Blog

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