For some years we’ve been hearing about a Google browser. Indeed, a year ago something called Google 4.0 alighted on Syntagma, according to browser records in Sitemeter.

It seems to have developed the same kind of improbable status that Google Office has, even after the purchase of Writely. So what’s latest on the Google browser?

Google Firefox, that’s what. Google has teamed up with Mozilla, funding its foundation and allowing the open-sourcerers to take on more staff.

Now Google firefox appears on the legendarily plain-Jane Google homepage.

Interesting times.