I have already downloaded, installed, and set Google Chrome as my default web browser. Even though it is still in beta and there will definitely be bugs to be fixed, I am extremely excited about Google Chrome.

Why?

It’s not just because Chrome has been tested to be 42x faster than IE7 and 9x faster than FF3, it’s because I believe that Google Chrome is the first functional web applications platform. With Chrome, web developers will be emboldened to challenge the boundaries of web applications development, now that they are secure in the knowledge that their programs will have a powerful platform on which to be executed and run.

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