Google launched a new platform browser today, Chrome. Chrome is fast and simple. Google have carefully stripped out any browser bloat, built a new Javascript engine (V8) optimized for today’s web browsing experience and open sourced the code. I downloaded and ran it on my hp mini-note and was very impressed with the performance and the simplicity of the interface. On Google Chrome, I was happily browsing with 10 open tabs and no performance degradation. I suggest you give it a try, I think you’ll be impressed.
Alternatively, you could try Internet Explorer 8 Beta, which was made available for download from Microsoft today. I didn’t.
Here’s a few screenshots from the mini-note running Google Chrome.
Interestingly, Microsoft Live Mail didn’t like Chrome and suggested I use another browser.
I think the one thing that I us most on Firefox that chrome misses is the zoom feature. With the high resolution of the HP mini I think that zoom is almost required!
Have a try of Apple Safari if you are using the Windows OS. Much faster than Chrome when I tried it and similar clutter-free interface.