Ok, I confess…when I first heard Google was creating its own browser, I cringed…flashbacks from the Microsoft/Netscape browser wars kept appearing before my eyes.  As an avid Firefox user and fan (the concept of tabs and add-ons is sheer brilliance!), I simply could not understand why Google decided to do it.

After reading this article, however, I think I now see Chrome’s shine — simply faster-and-more-secure wouldn’t do it, but true browser-as-platform capability just might.  @ITSInsider recently polled her Twitter followers as to how many brower tabs they had open and what they were doing in them, lending some insight into how people work with the new social media capabilities prior to Chrome.

Hopefully, with the addition of Chrome to Google’s stable it will also lead to a greater focus for Google on its Google Docs service so that we can all free ourselves from our MS Office shackles without sacrificing functionality.