I threw Chrome 2 on my Windows 7 VM for the heck of it, and all I need to say is -- holy crap, it feels like I got a new computer. JavaScript-heavy sites simpl

I threw Chrome 2 on my Windows 7 VM for the heck of it, and all I need to say is -- holy crap, it feels like I got a new computer. JavaScript-heavy sites simply have... "the snappy" now. At first I thought it might just be perception, so I decided to run the SunSpider benchmark against everything I have installed. * Chrome 2 (Windows 7 on VMWare Fusion, 1CPU): 915ms * Safari 4 Beta (OS X 10.5.7, 2 CPU): 1304ms * Firefox 3.5 Beta (OS X 10.5.7, 2 CPU): 1497ms * Firefox 3.0 (Windows 7 on VMWare Fusion, 1 CPU): 3784ms * Internet Explorer 8 (Windows 7 on VMWare Fusion, 1 CPU): 7124ms Stability issues do exist, granted I've run into them with every beta browser I have installed (Safari 4 crashed for the first time today, Firefox 3.5 has bombed out twice I think). Once the OS X version matures, it'll be a huge incentive to switch, although the lack of a dedicated search bar (and support for search providers a la Firefox) is something I'd sorely miss.