I read a rumor that a Google browser may be in the works.
The browser could be based on the Firebird codebase, which gives them a great place to start at.
I remember Adam Bosworth talking about changing browsers to work in a near-time mode. His vision was of an application that can work “offline”, and can sync up when you get back online. He wanted this to be “standard” for browsers, but without the power of IE behind it, how could he do it at BEA?
Now, at Google, he CAN push this ahead with a Google Browser.
Who knows, maybe we will be hitting gbrowser.com sometime soon.