*Google Chrome* is a Mac web browser that lets you surf the web in comfort at
high speeds. The first thing we noticed about Google Chrome is that it's
unbelievably lightweight. While Firefox was consuming anything from an
average of 20-30% of a Mac's CPU, Chrome barely registered on the scale,
occasionally touching 1%. For anyone plagued with Firefox memory leaks and
crashes, this alone is surely going to be a compelling reason to give Chrome
a go. As you'd expect, Google Chrome also features *tabbed browsing*, which
visually, is more attractive than Firefox which tends to cram them together
somewhat. Extensions and bookmarking (including syncing across machines) are
included, as is Adobe Flash. Chrome for Mac only works on Intel Macs and you
might find that some add-ons that you used with previous browsers aren't
available for it yet. This is rapidly changing however and most popular
add-ons are now available on Chrome. Perhaps most importantly, Google Chrome
is extremely quick. Surfing the Softonic site, page-loads took less then a
second and all images were loaded very quickly. YouTube in particular loaded
with lightening speed. Overall, the handling of sites using JavaScript in
particular is mightily impressive and this has been made even better with the
implementation of a V8 Crankshaft. Its also nice to know that with Google
Chrome, even if there is a problem with one of your tabs, that it won't crash
the whole browser - just the tab itself. However, sandboxing of Flash still
isn't available in the Mac version, even though it is on Windows. The final
version ensures that you'll be able to synchronize not only bookmarks across
multiple computers, but also browser preferences - including themes, homepage
and startup settings, web content settings, preferred languages, and even
page zoom settings. Meanwhile, you can also enable each extension to work in
incognito mode through the extensions manager. *With thousands of extensions,
super fast browsing and all the intelligence and slickness you expect from a
Google product, Chrome delivers an excellent browsing experience.*.Download
*Google Chrome Stable 13.0.782.218* in Softonic
