Not only did Google announce Chrome (its new browser thats making a splash all over TechMeme) with a comic book but theres a bit more funny history as well.

Several years ago Microsoft had a project code-named Chrome. It was supposed to be a multimedia browser. The project was killed a few weeks away from shipping.

There are even still some articles up about the Microsoft Chrome project. Heres one about the project getting killed.

But, more seriously, and not so humorous: I wonder what will happen to funding for Mozillas Firefox now that Google is headed into the browser business?

UPDATE: John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, left a comment in this post saying that this wont affect Mozilla. He also was interviewed by Om Malik where he said Mozilla isnt worried.

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