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Walt Mossberg’s Google Chrome review

Walt Mossberg is the personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal who has been a very influential reviewer of tech products for some time. If you release a tech product and you want it to be successful, a good review from Walt Mossberg is a big step in the right direction, while a negative review can often prove to hurt the product in the long run.

So what does Walt think of Google’s new browser, Chrome?

Mossberg generally likes the browser, especially it’s simplistic design and the fact that it gives the most screen real estate to the web page of any browser out there. However, he does point out that it has some flaws and is missing some features that the competition has. Some simple features such as a progress bar to see how a web page is a loading and a way to manage bookmarks are missing. Overall though, Mossberg says that the browser is a good start for Google that is sure to shake up the browser wars. Since it’s in beta, it’s only going to get better over time. Check out his video review below…

Firefox claims a 19% market share in the browser wars

Mozilla is growing, and it seems that in addition to the recent world record, which was set for the software downloads in a 24 hour time period, they have also risen to 19.03% of the market share. Mozilla saw an increase from 18.41% up to 19.03% from the end of May to the end of more »