It's interesting to see some of the smaller developers who like to take abrowser, from a heavyweight such as Google, then turn this in to their ownproject. It happened with Internet Explorer. There are a number of derivativesthat use the IE engine that ships with Windows, then produce their own browseraround these components.

ChromePlus is an upgraded version of the publically available Google Chromev3.x. The developers have taken then source code then added their own features.For example, ChromePlus enables you to use ?super drag' which means you canhighlight a link and then drag that to your new page tab to open in another tab.Mouse gestures enable you to perform commands with a quick mouse movement withinthe browser, whilst IE tab offers Internet Explorer functionality within its owntab. Ideal if certain websites claim they will only work with Internet Explorer.

The problem with these ?updated' versions of web browsers is that it's alwaysgoing to be difficult to convince end users to use a browser from an unknowndeveloper. A browser uses so much private and important information, that ittakes a lot to convince users. However, it will be interesting to see theprogress of this alternative version of the Google Chrome web browser.