If You Haven't Taken To Chrome Yet, Try The New Beta

For years now, my browser of choice has been Firefox, an open source success story that now commands 25 percent of the browser market, according to data from Net Applications. The primary reason I use Firefox is that the extensions available for it are tremendously useful and keep annoyances to a minimum. From AdBlock Plus to iMacros, extensions help make the case for Firefox. However, after using the new beta version of Google Chrome, I'm committed to using it for many, though not all of my browsing tasks.

For some time now, Google has been delivering new and improved beta versions of Chrome at a faster rate than Mozilla has been delivering new versions of Firefox. That's partly due to the sizes of the audiences for the browsers, where Google has under 7 percent market share compared to Firefox's 25 percent, and is a gap that may close eventually.
Nevertheless, each incremental step that Google takes with Chrome results in noticeable improvements. As many have reported, the new beta of Chrome is significantly faster than previous versions. Google claims that Chrome is 200 percent and 300 percent faster than previous versions, respectively, on V8 and SunSpider benchmark tests. You can in fact feel the faster performance. I loaded pages all around the web almost instantly while Firefox often took more than 10 seconds to load them. There are significant Javascript performance enhancements in the new beta.
The new Chrome beta also, finally, includes a bookmark syncing feature so you can easily carry your preferences over to Chrome installations on other computers and devices. And, Chrome has built-in Flash integration, which, among other things, means that you can seamlessly watch much of the video content on the web.
It's becoming a two-browser world, from my perspective, and the two browsers I reach for are both open source. Going forward, I will use Chrome for many of my web-based tasks due, primarily due to its speed, but keep Firefox and its useful extensions available when I need them.

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