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FIVE years ago last month, Firefox rose from the ashes of Netscape’s crushing defeat at the hands of Microsoft in the first browser wars. In that first encounter, Microsoft used its monopoly in operating systems to clobber Netscape by bundling its own browser, Internet Explorer, with every copy of Windows. This strategy made IE the default browser for most Windows users and wiped out the early lead that Netscape enjoyed. As a result, Netscape’s share of the browser market plummeted from more than 80 percent in 1996 to less than 5 percent by 2003.
GOOGLE took its Chrome browser out of test mode last week, just 100 days after it introduced the beta version. After giving the test version a whirl last September, however, I haven’t had much reason to return to it.
In fact, I’ve found many reasons to say “no” to Google’s browser.
LEAKED pages from a 38-page comic book tipped off most Google watchers that the Internet search giant was about to announce its new browser, Chrome, last week.
