I downloaded the new Chrome browser beta that Google released the other day, and I have to say that it is amazing! If you have time to read it, Scott Adams put together a great cartoon about the Chrome project and details the key features and reasons why they decided to create another web browser.
I’ve been a Firefox fan for a long time now, and still am really. It is a great browser, and is definitely the best of class for it’s generation but as of Sept 2nd a new generation has started and Google’s baby is the first born. It’s features just rock! It is sooo much faster, more responsive, and easier to use than Firefox, IE, or anything else I’ve used. Even without my Firefox plugins (ScribeFire, PicLens, etc) I’d rather be browsing in Chrome, although it’ll be nice to have those plugins again sometime soon… {fingers crossed}
There are a few things lacking in Chrome though, it’s still a beta product after all. One of them is that because it’s built on Apple’s Webkit, the same engine that Safari uses, there are some things that don’t render the same (like the WordPress editor – TinyMCE?). Another is that it doesn’t support plugins yet, nor does it run on Linux or Mac. I’m not worried about it though, it’s a Google product; before you can say “Jack sat on a funny hat” twelve times backwards… in Farsi, they’ll have all of these problems resolved.