Just a quick note to let you OS X owners know that Google have released a beta version of their excellent browser Chrome. It’s a few versions on from the developer build that they made available for a short time a couple of months ago.

I’ve been using it for a while now and I have to say that it’s excellent. Not as functional as something like Safari, but it will certainly let you get done what you need to get done. The one thing it has is speed. Unfortunately the time browsers take to render a web page is now measured in fractions of a second so you’ll be hard pressed to see any difference between Chrome and Safari. However it is a little bit quicker, it has never crashed for me, and it loads almost instantly. In that respect it beats Firefox in every way I can think of.

Personally the release of Chrome has signalled the death of Firefox. Both Chrome and Safari load instantly, never crash, render pages perfectly, and work so quickly it’s crazy. Firefox takes 15 to 30 seconds to load, is a pain in the arse when it comes to rendering pages correctly (if you don’t believe me, try building a web page), and crashes most of the time. Long live Chrome.

Check it out at http://www.google.com/chrome