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"With Chrome Google is again raising the bar," states Klaas Kersting, CEO of Gameforge – the world-wide largest developer of browser games. "The other browser offerers will try to follow as quickly as possible – and such a trend in the market can be nothing but beneficial to us".

Chrome is looking like it will be a serious contender for No.1 Web surfing app. Now, in its current state you can see that Chrome is geared toward the internet enthusiast, someone who has a bit of experience and knowledge of how the web works.

This is obvious from the get-go, as one can tell by its elegant, minimalistic interface, designed to give as much space as possible to the webpage itself, with many elements such as the status bar and bookmark toolbar which are present in IE and Firefox being reduced to temporary pop-ups of sorts, and others removed altogether, such as the menu bar.

Lars Bak, the Google engineer who was the technical leader for Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, said at the launch event Tuesday he's confident Chrome is "many times faster" than the rivals at running JavaScript, the programming language that powers Google Docs, Gmail, and many other Web applications.

More than other industries, browser game developers benefit from the new technologies of Microsoft, Google and others. The leading browser game developers are banking on client downloads being redundant in a few years and expecting that online games will then be played only in browsers. In any case, Chrome will bring important impulses at least to the games market.

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