Just saw the post about google chrome...

Here:

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

Other than how absolutely cool it is for Scott McCloud to be doing a comic book about a web browser, there's some very cool and interesting technology in there. The separate process scheme sounds interesting and v8 sounds quite cool as well. This on the heels of TraceMonkey this week from Mozilla. A lot of good research going into dynamic languages and compilation. The fallout from all of this competition should be great.