这个浏览器将直接开启微软和谷歌的网上冲浪领域大战，显然谷歌不愿意看到IE8对其将来业务开展所产生的不利影响，有道是在他人屋檐下不得不低头，所以谷歌给我们带来了Chrome，科罗米。

官方描述：从外观即可看出，Google Chrome的设计简单、高效，是一款真正的Web浏览工具。与谷歌主页一样，Google Chrome的特点是简洁、快速。Google Chrome支持多标签浏览，每个标签页面都在独立的"沙箱"内运行，在提高安全性的同时，一个标签页面的崩溃也不会导致其他标签页面被关闭。Google Chrome基于更强大的JavaScript V8引擎，这是当前Web浏览器所无法实现的。

明天，谷歌将在全球100多个国家推出Google Chrome测试版。

The newest competitor and still in private beta testing. Built on Silverlight, LiveStation has the ability of becoming a serious player due to its backing by Microsoft. See our previous coverage for a demonstration.

TVU Networks would be the most well known provider in this space. Copyright issues aside, there lineup of live channels is fairly solid with a range of US based content, although like most in this space, you’ll get better value from it if you speak Mandarin. I’ve used TVU previously, and again with my testing for this post; both times picture quality was flaky; audio is fine but it’s difficult to watch. It’s a service that would probably work better with a high speed internet connect, one quicker than my 2mb cable.

Sopcast is a very similar offering to TVU Networks but with a less polished interface. Looks aren’t everything as in my tests the picture quality from Sopcast was of a higher quality than TVU, although still not perfect. A somewhat different range of channels, for example Channel Ten Australia is available and quite watchable, although there would appear to be not quite so many US channels.

Zattoo could quite easily become the leader in this space if it wasn’t currently restricted to Switzerland and the UK, and then only by invite in those countries. The channel lineup on Zattoo is excellent, and unlike many others it’s all broadcast legally as well. Reviews for Zatto elsewhere would indicate that the viewing quality is first rate. If anyone knows how to view Zattoo outside of these countries, let us know.

PPLive comes in an English version, but that’s about the extent of English on the service. A fairly extensive range of Chinese programs. Streaming quality was pretty good for me in testing, even if I had no idea what anyone was saying.

PPMate, like PPLive and a number of other platforms (we won’t cover them all) is Chinese based and doesn’t include English content. Lots of Chinese content though and stream quality was good.

There are others. StreamStar has a reasonable list.