Co-founder Sergey Brin believes Chrome has enough advantages to get people to switch browsers. "You want a faster, safer, more robust Web experience," he said.
Why create Chrome now, though? In an interview, he said the task isn't easy. "We're still a pretty small company, but we were even smaller a couple years earlier," Brin said.
Also, Mozilla's Firefox project showed what could be done in taking on Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer, he said. "We were inspired by the success of Firefox...We do not want to reduce Firefox market share at all." Rather, Google hopes to "to get more adoption of alternative browsers."
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