Early in the morning of September 3rd came the news that the Google Chrome browser was globally launched as scheduled. The Chinese version of Chrome was globally launched at the same time, and the current version number of the Chinese edition is 0.2.149.27. This Monday, Google confirmed in its official blog that it would launch the Google Chrome browser and disclosed that it would roll out the test version of this product in more than 100 countries around the world on Tuesday (Beijing Time Wednesday). Google revealed in the blog that the purpose of developing Google Chrome is to build a modern platform for web pages and applications, rather than merely another browser.