Originally posted here by Spyder32
As much as I like the sound of a google web browser, the LAST thing I want is for it to be ANYTHING like IE. Taking some guys from Microsoft might have been smart on paper and for obvious reasons, but I really don't want another version of Internet Explorer.
LOL.. I hear ya Spyder.. but the rumor is that they'll do some javascript stuff and work with mozilla..

http://news.com.com/Clues+may+point+...3-5379625.html

In addition, the company recently hosted the Mozilla Developer Day at its Mountain View, Calif., campus. Mozilla develops an open-source browser to which Google engineers could contribute code as a way of introducing a Google-flavored Internet tool.

Suggesting that such a working partnership exists, a post to Mozilla's Bugzilla system indicated that a bug report had been closed because it mimicked an earlier report. The bug, the post read, was "a duplicate of a private bug about working with Google. So closing this one," according to the blog Deftone.com.

"Google is investing heavily in JavaScript-powered desktop-like Web apps like G-mail and Blogger. Google could use their JavaScript expertise to build Mozilla applications. Built-in blogging tools. Built-in Gmail tools. Built-in search tools," one well-known blogger, Jason Kottke, wrote recently.