So Chrome has been out a while now for PC and yeah it’s pretty snappy, I admit it’s as fast as Firefox, and on some pages faster, but it has no extensions. Well the Mac version was released yesterday, and Holy Hold on to your mouse Batman is it fast! This Beta version zips through pages that are properly coded, and SMOKES any google app (gmail, cal, docs, picasa, etc). Now I’m not going to jump ship from FireFox to Chrome, mainly b/c I’m building stuff and FF has SO many tools to help with that, BUT if I were just a run of the mill internet user, I’d be all over Chrome. So if you are looking for the fastest browser on the Mac, go grab Chrome for Mac. If you are still looking for the most polished and useful, and still pretty fast browser, grab Firefox.
UPDATE: Ok the BETA seems to not be a marketing ploy, but really serious. There are a couple or quirks with this right now, most of you might want to wait for the stable release and the GUI has some things to get used to, like the magical status bar at the bottom that shows up only for certain actions, and the lack of any settings or bookmark menus.