Google is releasing a beta web browser called “Chrome” tomorrow, and they’ve even got a comic strip to explain the design choices they made, and how it’s supposed to make life better.

The browser is based on WebKit. They aim to make JavaScript vastly faster with a new JavaScript virtual machine called V8. At the same time, the Mozilla team is beefing up Firefox 3.1 with a faster JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey.

V8 and TraceMonkey reportedly race down the freeway while IE 7 and IE 8 are left puttering along at pedestrian speeds.