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Put the pedal to the metal with a faster Google Chrome

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Thats nice, but I was hoping they would add tags to their bookmarks so it could be integrated with Google bookmarks. I would like to be able to reach my bookmarks away from home and I prefer tags to folders.

Yeh they really should do this. It might make distributed bookmarks more mainstream. I have been using delicious for years and can't imagine saving a favorite in a browser anymore.

I threw Chrome 2 on my Windows 7 VM for the heck of it, and all I need to say is -- holy crap, it feels like I got a new computer. JavaScript-heavy sites simply have... "the snappy" now.

At first I thought it might just be perception, so I decided to run the SunSpider benchmark against everything I have installed.

* Chrome 2 (Windows 7 on VMWare Fusion, 1CPU): 915ms

* Safari 4 Beta (OS X 10.5.7, 2 CPU): 1304ms

* Firefox 3.5 Beta (OS X 10.5.7, 2 CPU): 1497ms

* Firefox 3.0 (Windows 7 on VMWare Fusion, 1 CPU): 3784ms

* Internet Explorer 8 (Windows 7 on VMWare Fusion, 1 CPU): 7124ms

Stability issues do exist, granted I've run into them with every beta browser I have installed (Safari 4 crashed for the first time today, Firefox 3.5 has bombed out twice I think). Once the OS X version matures, it'll be a huge incentive to switch, although the lack of a dedicated search bar (and support for search providers a la Firefox) is something I'd sorely miss.

How about Chrome for OSX. Much needed.

A Google developer who works on Chrome posted some interesting information on Shacknews: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19972940#item_19972940

"We continue to work on our own extensions framework. There's still a lot to do for "version 1" but it's progressing fast. Extension auto-update is just starting to land so you won't have to manually remove/re-install extensions to update them (yay).

Mac and Linux are also progressing fast. I can't say when we hope to start getting alpha-quality versions into the Dev channel but we're hoping for Real Soon Now. They're still obviously rough but the teams are pushing them forward fast."

They're working on it...

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/

And Linux.

And for those who don't care for a browser that phones home with your browsing habits, Iron is up to date:

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php

Features are great, but I'd prefer if they focused on stability. Chrome is lean and for that reason I use it on a daily basis, but it crashes consistently which makes it a pain to use.

It doesn't mention it on that blog post, but the new version of Chrome has 300 bugfixes: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/05/speedier-google-chrome-fo...

Extra extra, read all about it! Chrome is fast!

Ok, you are blowing everyone else out of the water now. Can you take some time to focus on features? For me, vertical tabs are a necessity.

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