Google chrome was released last week and its already got around 2-4% of US market share, while its sounds so small, actually it a lot, if you compare it to opera or safari which took them years to get to 4% it only took google one week or even a day. I really hate the news when i saw it before the day it was released, and the reason was we web developers have to cater another browser with different javascript engine.

But this move brings significance to the whole computer industry, of course its not just Google Chrome but other stuff that make news this few week. One of them is JIT or Just in Time Compiler, thanks to Adobe for opening their Javascript JIT engine, we can see the result of these in TraceMonkey, the javascript engine of the next version of firefox and V8 the javascript engine of Google Chrome, so whats so good about it? The source are now compiled like java or .net and the browser need not to download binaries, this will make javascript to be executed a lot faster, 4-10% of the current speed.

Another thing which i believe google will do in the long run is the instant on linux(SplashTop) feature and they might even release a computer of their own, with this one feature sort of a cloud book but with no operating system except the prebuild linux and their android team will help them achieve this goal. Currently SplashTop includes firefox as the build in browser, but i’m looking at the opportunity that once Chrome reached the linux land they will make a dell with them or they will make their own.

Is this the end of MS? I don’t think so but i do hope that its the end of IE, ahha. Coz after IE8 is released we have to cater 3 browser from MS and that sucks. This is actually good for MS coz now their force to do better but the question now is that will IE8 commit to its promise of being standard or web programmer will just ignore them in the long run when firefox, safari, chrome and opera (all comply to the standard) reached over 50% of market share?