Google Chrome Pubilc Beta by Fall! [news]

I have been waiting for this! Finally us mac users havn’t been neglected again! Google has said “although Google will not specify a target date, they assured us that they would be ‘very surprised’ and ‘very unhappy’ if fall came and went without a public beta”. Awesome!

Check out the post I got it from on Lifehacker.

Choose a browser!

For all the people that are confused about whether to choose Firefox or Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari, Chrome or Internet Explorer, or whatever combination, the great tech blog Lifehacker has just posted a poll for the best browser. Firefox won, but I think the original article has great information of the differences between the five browsers.

You can find the article here:
You can also see the sped tests for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox [here]:
Here’s my quick review of the browsers:

Google Chrome: A new browser from Google that uses Safari’s speedy Webkit engine to parse webpages extremely quickly. It has a stripped-down interface to see more of the webpage and less unnecessary stuff. It also makes every tab its own process, so a crash in another webpage won’t mess up the loading of the other webpages. The speedy Javascript parser and security standards have gotten Chrome a lot of attention. For now it’s Windows only, but Mac and Linux versions should be coming out soon.

Update: Dinu below has a site for all you Chrome lovers out there! Please go to http://chromestory.com to see it!

Firefox: A browser that has its roots from Netscape, a browser from a while back. Firefox 3 is now amazing. It has gotten a lot of praise for the fact that it is highly extensible with over 6,000 extentions to make the browser experience better. The down side of this is that it sometimes makes it slow down in comparison to the other browsers, but the new release, Firefox 3.1 is said to have updated its Tracemonkey Javascript engine to make it extremely fast. In benchmarks, it has even beat Chrome’s V8 Javascript engine. It is also known for its security standards, they are very good. Firefox is open-source ported in like 30 different languages or more. It’s Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible.

Safari: Apple’s browser that comes with every Mac computer. Since its first 1.0 release, it has gotten tremendously snappy and the user interface is very appealing. It uses the WebKit engine, which parses web pages very fast and the new beta release, Safari 4 beta is said to be even faster. Apple has now developed it for Windows.

Internet Explorer: The most popular browser on the internet, mainly because it is ported with the most popular operating system in the world. Internet Explorer’s releases have been pretty disappointing in comparison to the Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera. IE is famous for its sluggishness, bugs, and lack of extensibility and features. IE 8 is said to be much better though, with a focus on rendering web pages faster and more stability with less bugs. IE is Windows Only.

Opera: Opera is another speedy browser like Chrome and Safari that has a whole lot of features packed into it, like its mouse gestures, rss reader, and bittorent client. It beats Firefox and Chrome in speed tests done by the Opera team. It also has a great mobile browser. Opera is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.