I decided to do a little test on one of my machines with the three browsers I use most. In each browser I opened up Gmail, Google Reader and CNNMoney.

I did this on Friday and did not look at the memory usage until Monday. After a little less than 3 days, we get the following numbers

Chromium 1.0.154.48

180,157k

IE 8.00.6001.18372

362,223k

Firefox 3.0.4

100,...

If you want to get the new Chrome features as soon as possible then you are in luck; Google has launched the Google Chrome Dev Channel. The Google Chrome Dev Channel will give you early access to features and fixes.

The Dev channel is useful for:

Web developers who want to test their sites or scripts with pre-release versions of Google Chrome

Testers who need to make sure they’re working with the latest bug fixes

Anyone who wants to help make Google Chrome better – your feedback helps us turn good new ...

So I got it installed at home on a windows XP machine. It installed really quickly but you have to close Firefox so it can import all the settings from that. I’m not even sure it asked me if it could do that. I’m actually writing this blogpost in chrome.

So it loads the pages really fast and it renders the pages mainly in one go. I think it loads those pieces from the same server in one go.

Most things work. Except for the checkbox. Somebody made a mistake and it renders the checkbox as a radiobutton but I’m sure they will get that fixed one day.

First, I would like to ask myself why do we need another browser? Well, because competition is a good thing. But is it really competition and from who will it steal the market share? I’m pretty sure it will steal from Firefox and the other lesser used browsers, because those are the people that actually take the effort to install something different than Internet Explorer. The IE users either don’t have a choice or they just aren’t computer savvy enough to know there are other things out there (like aliens).

Second, it seems that this version is based on the Apple ...