I’ve been using Google’s browser, which is now in open beta (available here) and this morning I finally decided I like it even more than Firefox.  It’s much more nimble, it takes less RAM, and the interface is so clean and simple … I’ve fallen in love with it.  So much so I decided I had to come out here and rewrite this posted article.

When they first came out with it, my initial reaction was, “WTF?  Why another freaking browser?”  But then I read the story behind it, about why they decided to create a new browser from the ground up, and … wow.  It made complete sense.

Who knows if it will catch on or not, but it has the potential to change everything.

Here’s the main advantage:  They designed it from scratch for how we use the Internet now, as opposed to how we used the Internet ten years ago.  All the other browsers, you see, are struggling to accommodate what they were never designed to do in the first place.

Think of it.  The browser has become the universal application.  We use it for everything.  It was never designed to do that — it was supposed to display passive HTML.  Everything else browsers do now is because of features tacked on to the original design and concept.

The Google browser is designed from the ground up to be the universal application, almost — if you will — an operating system.  They designed it with the features of an operating system.  It’s built to run programs.

For me it won’t completely replace Firefox, because I’m addicted to the Firefox plugins … but if Chrome starts using plugins…

That would be groovy.