Tons of stuff happening in Browserland over the last couple of weeks.

Biggest news is Google unveiling their very own browser, Chrome (Windows only currently, Mac and Linux versions on their way). Based on Webkit, like Apple's Safari and iPhone browsers, seems Google are putting their money where their mouth is, and producing a browser stable enough, fast enough and secure enough to run their vision of the next iteration of the internet; bigger and more complicated online apps, more time spent in the cloud, less time spent on the desktop.

They've written their own javascript engine from scratch, which is all open source and free to use. And interestingly they've borrowed a ton of code from Mozilla, whilst simulataneously becoming one of their main competitors (although Mozilla insist that they aren't).

Find all about Chrome in comic form, or good old youtube vids.

Meanwhile, Mozilla haven't been sat on their hands. Announcing their all new javascript engine, Tracemonkey, which offers a huge improvement over the existing Spidermonkey engine.

But more interesting is Ubiquity, which is perhaps best explained by watching this video:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

And lastly Microsoft are still keeping on the ball, by releasing IE8 Beta2, which actually takes up more resources on your computer than XP itself, consuming "380MB of RAM and spawning 171 concurrent threads during a multi-tab browsing test of popular Web destinations". Nice!