Google Chrome review

Pros
Super-fast browsing performance, now with hardware acceleration. Excellent security through sandboxing and malware warnings. Instant site prediction and loading. Easy installation. Excellent tab implementation. Extensions for customization. Bookmark and preference syncing. Tab process isolation. Strong support for HTML 5. Built-in Flash player and PDF reader.
Cons
No built-in "do not track" feature. Still some occasional minor site incompatibilities.
Bottom Line
Chrome Instant means your Web page is ready to read before you finish typing the address. This, its speed, minimalist design, and advanced support for HTML5 have been attracting more and more users to the browser. New for version 14: Native Code, Audio API support, and Mac OS X Lion compatibility.
As it increases in popularity, Google Chrome is becoming more and more a conduit for Google services. With this release, Chrome 15, the Internet search leader has changed just one user-facing feature—the new tab page, which has been tweaked to give more prominence to the Chrome Web app store. Though this isn't a huge improvement, Chrome remains your best Web browser, thanks to blazing speed, and ground-breaking features. It boasts unique features like Chrome Instant, built-in Flash and PDF display, leading Web standards support, and a minimalist application window that lets Web pages shine unimpeded.

Despite the lack of exciting new eye candy or super-duper capabilities in Chrome 15, the competition–Firefox 7 (Free, 4 stars), Internet Explorer (Free, 4 stars), Safari 5.1 (Free, 4 stars), and Opera 11.50 (Free, 4 stars)–still struggles to equal Chrome's sparse user interface and speedy operation. For this, Google Chrome remains our Editors' Choice. Its recent expansion of graphics hardware acceleration, which previously trailed that in Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox, renders Chrome's performance unrivaled on all scores.

Previous releases have brought major new features, such as bookmark syncing, a bookmark manager, a built-in PDF reader, and extensions, though others have just added speed, stability, and new standards support. The remarkable Chrome Instant loads pages before you even finish typing their addresses or titles. And in an homage to IE9, Chrome now includes graphics hardware acceleration. Its fine design, compatibility, and especially the speed have impressed the Web community enough to make Chrome the fastest growing browser in terms of market share. On this measure, it's nearing 25 percent, and poised to overtake Firefox as the number two browser. Let's take a look at what makes this browser so special.

Swift Setup
Even the setup process shows Chrome's commitment to speed: Just click the Install button on the Chrome Web page, and you'll have the browser up and running in less than a minute, with no wizard to go through and no system restart. The browser's available for Mac OS X and Linux, as well as Windows. In each platform the browser's up and running before you realize it, and it updates itself automatically in the background.