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While it may lag far behind other Internet browsers in terms of market share, Google’s Chrome web browser has been steadily gaining on industry standards such as Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox ever since Google brought the product to market. As with so many Google products, the focus has always been upon ease of use.

Chrome is certainly no different. With an intuitive interface and some changes that seem so obvious its a wonder no one else thought of them, Google has continually upgraded the browser, now preparing to unveil Version 6 of the interface. Today we’ll be taking a look at some of the features that will get tweaked next time around, as well as a few that have been pushed back to version 7.

The bulk of the updates for Chrome 6.0 are just that: updates. Not so much developing new features as providing better functionality and smoother net-surfing, the modifications under the hood are the core of the new Chrome. Featured among these are modifications better-enabling Chrome to handle many advanced web features.

In the ongoing battle between these two computing titans, there’s been a great deal of buzz lately about the rivalry. First of all, the release of the iPhone 4 brought the attention of the media onto Apple, but Google has a strain of independently developed smartphones boasting Android as an operating system slated for release this summer as well.

While Apple might retain the edge over Google in the world of gadgets and electronics, Google remains an Internet giant, and today’s news story only works to further highlight this status.

Google Chrome, the company’s entry into the world of web browsers, was announced to have overtaken Apple’s Safari browser in terms of market share. Safari, which comes standard on Apple computers, was reported in Geek Juice to have a market share of 8.88 percent, with Chrome holding a slight edge at 8.92 percent.