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Google Chrome

Google's very own web browser, Chrome, is out.

Get it for Windows here, and read all about it here, as presented by Scott McCloud.

My fave points: the memory handling, the speed dial home page (as purloined from Opera), the stuffs supposedly keeping you safe from malware and phishing, the UI, it's open source, I love the testing done, there are web application shortcuts, the webkit rendering engine is new and fresh and the V8 javascript virtualisation machine helps developers and create platform independence with ways to purge memory; quite a lot of features here!

I so far love the general feel of it; I find it's quite light-weight, and with that I mean it's light. Not stumpy. Pages load quickly and opening a bunch of tabs doesn't make it sluggish. So far, so good!

edit: of course, there's a caveat for Chrome; check the details here, and here's the bit I found most interesting, straight outta the Chrome terms of service:

By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services.