I've taken the plunge and been trying out the Google Chrome dev channel releases.
Chrome 1 gave us speed
Chrome 2 gave us more speed
Chrome 3 gave us themes (kind of like igoogle)
and why am I using Chrome 4?
One reason, and one reason only:
Extensions.
Yep - that's right, extensions. And you know what? While there aren't actually all that many out there, the extensions I'm using don't appear to have slowed Chrome down. Not at startup, not during page rendering and not during shutdown. While Chrome's memory usage is a dog - because it seperates each tab out into seperate processes (really good idea by the way - seriously), the extensions don't seem to add anything.
This is really important, because I'm now going to get rid of Firefox... gasp! I don't really need it anymore - except to play Quake Live. Okay - I'm going to keep Firefox. For now.
Security issues - I'm not sure, but it still appears to be quite secure. I'll let you know if my bank accounts suddenly empty.
Try it or not. Extensions are cool
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