Louis, I think that can be it. Only thing left is that 'milestone' for Google to have. Else, yeah, Chrome as the browser's window decorations and its perfectly suited. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

I'm digging the Top Sites, but what does the little blue star page-pullback denote? - Steve Isaacs

Steve, I am not sure. Maybe it means "updated since last visit"? I will look. - Louis Gray

Steve, new content. - Akiva Moskovitz

detachable tabs as well, very much like Chrome. The war is on, but this time, Microsoft is sitting on the bench. - Jeremy Chone

Microsoft has always been a follower on the browser front since day one (yes, remember NCSA Mosaic that they hacked to build IE) - Stephan Osmont

Browser Wars - The Next Generation! - Seriously, has anybody clicked the RSS feed button when they're visiting a site yet? Gorgeous Feed display! - David Silvernail

@Stephan -- that is so far outside of reality. Microsoft broke a ton of ground in IE4 and IE5. Innovations include the modern DHTML DOM (including the idea of universally tweakable properties) and XMLHTTP. These are the building blocks of all modern AJAX web apps today. What did netscape have at the time? Lame layers. And, for the record, it was only IE3 that was built on the Mosaic code. IE4+ was a completely, from scratch, rendering engine that was *years* ahead of everything else at the time. - Joe Beda

++Joe Beda: true, that version that came with Win98 was the bomb, never seen it run like that after that, it was amazing even if coded inside and with the OS. That made me remind about one video on the evolution of Firefox, a proposal made some time ago: check it out on Vimeo, tell me what y'all think: oops: wrong link, here it is: http://vimeo.com/1466664 - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

@jbeda Hum Netscape 1.0 did not have XMLHTTP indeed but it changed the world. Netscape's browser is called Firefox today, the leading browser in the world with 45.5% market share. On the plus side, this war has fostered innovation and we're all enjoying the fruits of this competition. - Stephan Osmont

I just had to uninstall the new beta... completely non-functional under 10.4.11 on my PPC machine. Could be just too old to run it. What I got working looked neat. - Bob M. Montgomery from twhirl

Browsers get a fancy version of MRU and it's considered innovation. - Hayes Haugen

It's not really MRU, so much as Most Often Used or Most Likely to Use now. At least in Chrome, that's the intent. - Chieze Okoye

You can't really say Google has beaten Apple at its own game yet since Chrome hasn't been released on Mac OS X. I really would love to try Chrome someday. Someday. - Victor Ganata

I get that, but it still feels like an iteration on Windows 3.1 MDI. Isn't that "tile windows"? Apple has added coverflow to viewing history - "cascade windows"? OK, I'm grumbling, but all in all it doesn't ring of innovation to me. - Hayes Haugen

I'm mesmerized by "Show Top Sites." Seems like it needs either a keyboard shortcut or a pop-up contextual menu accessible via right-click/CTRL-click so I can get to the "Edit" functions easier, though. - Victor Ganata