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the talk of the town is google’s new web browser, entitled chrome. the browser is very minimal and light (in the usual google fashion).

my first impression of chrome is that it’s fast. the browser loads and moves quickly. pages load relatively fast as well. the browser uses little space for tabs and icons, leaving the majority of the real estate for the web pages. that’s my favourite part, how little space is wasted on icons and how much space is left for the internet.

chrome will be yet another contender in the browser wars. but as some pundits point out, chrome may take more of firefox’s userbase than from internet explorer’s userbase. and then there’s the sinister side to why google might create a browser. after all, the more they know about you …

i knew this was coming out and i’d been waiting in anticipation … firefox 3 beta has a lot of new features, even though it looks pretty much the same as firefox 2. the big differences are under the hood. malware detection, the ability to find who ‘owns’ a site, connectivity with anti-virus software for downloads, better error page returns, and improves its own security by disallowing non-secure addons or older system versions.

27 months and 2 million lines of code later, the new firefox is faster and more secure than before. this beta 1 build will be updated fairly quickly, as they discover errors or problems, but it should prove to be a much better browser.

download it here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html