Google Chrome

[Yamaneko]

Honestly I'm more interested in IE8 than this.

[Meow]

introducing the new google personal teleporter! (beta)

[Momiji]

I tried it and didn't like it. I promptly deleted it.

[rubah]

I don't know if I should bother to try it. Firefox does what it's supposed to do and it does it very well. Why bother?

to be fair, that's what all the IE6 users said, so we should at least bother to try it.

And now I am curious how it runs in wine *changes useragent*

[Leeza]

It looks interesting. I will try it at some point just to check it out.

[Moon Rabbits]

I downloaded it just now, I think it's pretty rad. I especially like the non-cluttered-ness of the interface, it seems very open and I feel like I can see a lot more of my web pages. Ohh! and look at that, a built in spell checker. It's really pretty, to boot.

I don't see a bookmark toolbar though, and that's my favorite part of firefox.

It doesn't /seem/ to use as much resources as Firefox either. Firefox has a really bad problem of being a total resource hog imho.

Unfortunately it is struggling with facebook when it is set to the new layout, along with some of the apps I regularly use, so firefox it is for now (but this may change very soon).

edit: Speaking of IE8, I totally didn't know it was even in beta. I lol'd at this:

InPrivate Browsing

Keep Internet Explorer 8 from adding any sites you visit to Browsing History with InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out.

Because I'm sure that's what EVERYONE will be using that feature for.

[Fonzie]

I heard it's really fast, and after a while, they'll allow all the add-ons Firefox has possible.

[Leeza]

I don't see a bookmark toolbar though, and that's my favorite part of firefox.

There is a bookmark toolbar. Clilck the star next to the address bar and then click Bookmarks Bar. I got that from watching their little videos.

[Roto13]

I don't know if I should bother to try it. Firefox does what it's supposed to do and it does it very well. Why bother?

to be fair, that's what all the IE6 users said, so we should at least bother to try it.

And now I am curious how it runs in wine :D *changes useragent*

IE6 was ass, though. xD

Someone tell me if it's significantly better than Firefox and I'll give it a go.

[Moon Rabbits]

I don't see a bookmark toolbar though, and that's my favorite part of firefox.

There is a bookmark toolbar. Clilck the star next to the address bar and then click Bookmarks Bar. I got that from watching their little videos.

Oh, neat! Thanks Leeza
@Fonz: It does seem pretty fast, especially with cookies enabled. The forum index loads in less than a second (the banner doesn't even disappear when it's reloaded!)

&@Roto: It's not amazingly better than Firefox ... more like, on par. Actually, the Firefox 2 and 3 are better simply because they've been out longer and have support for add-ons. Once Google adds support for extensions and etc, and fixes my Facebook woes, then I will definitely be switching.

[Clouded Sky]

I like the larger viewspace - tabs on top make me happy.

Also, I think it is actually noticeably faster than Firefox. I may just like it.

[Leeza]

I'll think about it more when I can have the extensions that I have now for Firefox.

[Yamaneko]

I've had Firefox3 open all day and it's currently using 40MB of RAM.

[crono_logical]

I've had Firefox3 open all day and it's currently using 40MB of RAM.

I've had firefox 3 open all week on my laptop, and it's now using 300 MB At work, it's using over 1 GB after one day, but that's because I have several 20 MB html files with hundreds of diagrams embedded in it open

I'll think about it more when I can have the extensions that I have now for Firefox.

Ditto Especially stuff like firebug

I like the larger viewspace - tabs on top make me happy.

I have the extra space in firefox anyway, since I like to rearrange all the useful buttons + menubar + addressbar onto the menubar line and turn off all toolbars Ok, so I've not turned the status bar off (which is also possible), but that's because I find it useful

[o_O]

I like it a lot.

- I feel that it's easily on par with Firefox in terms of speed, if not noticeably faster.
- It makes far better use of screen real estate than Firefox and I don't even need to comment on IE as far as screen usage goes.
- It seems to be intuitive and supports all of the keyboard and mouse shortcuts I've gotten used to in Firefox.
- The only addons for Firefox that I use are Greasemonkey and Firebug. I can live without Greasemonkey and Chrome has a nicer looking Firebug built in.
- Firefox with three webpages open is using 72MB of RAM. Chrome is using 29MB for the same pages. IE is using 37MB (lol wut).
- The rendering engine is (as far as I've tested) very similar to Firefox's (as opposed to IE's incorrect implementation of the DOM), which makes my job a whole lot easier.

It also has "incognito mode", which does the same as IE8's InPrivate mode.