Move over IE! There’s something leaner…

Google has released a beta version of their new open-souce browser, called “Chrome.”  Here’s a few selections from PC Magazine’s article entitled ” Google’s Chrome Officially Enters the Browser Wars:

The 7-Mbyte download is available now via http://www.google.com/chrome/ in 122 countries and 43 languages. It will run on Windows-based computers running XP or Vista, but Mac and Linux versions are still in the works…

“What we wanted to build was not so much a traditional content viewer but more of a window manager for web pages and applications,” Ben Goodger, a Google software engineer, said during a Tuesday press conference.

When asked how Google will compete against IE, Page demurred. “We’re competing with a product that’s given away by default on most computers,” he said.

Chrome alone will not be a major moneymaker for Google, according to the executives, but if Chrome can improve the user experience, that will encourage more Internet use and ultimately create more revenue for Google, they said.

“If we make our site faster by 20 percent, we can get substantially more usage and that generate directly into revenues,” Page said.