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Google Chrome - New Browser of Choice

When Google's web browser, Chrome, first came out, as quick and simple as it was, it seemed to lack a few of the extensions and features that were useful in Mozilla FireFox, especially for developers.

Recently though, after having trouble with massive memory leaks in FireFox (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak), Chrome got another try out (Internet Explorer still seems to take forever to load up and feels like its dominating the browsing experience).

No surprises in Chrome's simplicity, speed and efficiency, and the way it neatly lets you get on with browsing the web. It also come with nifty little developer tools, showing download speeds, CSS/HTML structure, access to scripts, all of which can be found from the page button link as shown in the video below, using the Page button > Developer > Developer tools link (or key combination CTRL + SHIFT + I).
As always it boils down to personal preference and it's good that there is this choice (nevermind the better standardised support of CSS amongst the browsers as many designers will attest to), but as of a few weeks ago, Google Chrome has become my personal favourite browser.
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