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I knew the rumors too... but did the competition knew it somehow, or were they in the same state of confusion as the rest of us?

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I think they knew. Chrome doesn't pose a threat to Firefox (for the next year atleast), but looking at some of the rapid developments around IE7 and IE8, it seems like Microsoft sensed that Google will eventually launch a Web browser.

Chrome doesn't pose a threat to Firefox (for the next year atleast)

Check the hourly Chrome chart:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?sample=21&qp...

Chrome has already eclipsed Opera and Netscape.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=1

...And the Chrome download-link is on the Google homepage.

On the other hand, maybe you're right. TechCrunch is seeing its readers pulling market share from IE:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/google-analytics-now-tr...

Nearly all the market share was taken from IE. Firefox actually gained almost 2% share in the last two days, and Safari was up more than 1%. IE, though, dropped from 30.77% to 23.92%.

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