I’ve been running Chrome as my primary browser now for a few months. This began as a necessity as I found Firefox to be really dragging in terms of page loading. I don’t know if this was due to an extension, but the frustration factor had reached the tipping point.
While Chrome is not as customizeable – you can’t even change the toolbar – it is one of the fastest browsers out there. Recent news has also highlighted Chrome’s security, noting that hackers at the pwn2own event have generally avoided trying to crack it, leaving $10k in bounty unclaimed. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s unhackable, but the fact that IE8, Firefox 3, Safari 4, and Mobile Safari have all been successfully hacked on day one means that they are definitely easier to hack than Chrome. Hacking Chrome may require more pull than $10,000 apparently.
This should give pause to those wishing to switch from IE8 to Firefox, and may even pull some Firefox users as well!
