Google has released a new browser called Google Chrome. I had heard of this project a while back when I was working at Google and I have been hoping ever since that they release it so that I can finally get off Internet Explorer.

So Chrome is fast, feels light weight and uncluttered. After playing around with it a bit I have replaced IE as my default browser (finally). This is just their Beta 1 release but it feels so good.

There are a few things that I would like it to have such as integration with the fingerprint authentication service so that the logons I created previously work with Chrome as well.

You should try it out:
http://www.google.com/chrome/

There is a fun comic here about chrome:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

And many YouTube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGmO7Oximw8
"Browsers need to get better because they were designed for an era when web pages were doing completely different things..". I agree.

I have heard from places that Chrome does not work well with Silverlight. Personally I don't care too much because I don't use Silverlight myself. I have never been convinced enough to install Silverlight because I felt that it would make an already slow and frustrating browsing experience degenerate a bit more. Which is interesting because now that Chrome is so fast i probably don't mind the penalty of Silverlight slowing it down a bit. So if some folk at MS write a good Silverlight plugin for Chrome arrogant little uns like me might try it out.

On Privacy

You should also read the privacy policy (if you care about such things). No, no one is stealing your passwords, but someone can be watching your "behavior":
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html

I for one have disabled the auto-suggestions feature as explained here: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95656&hl=en

Its a nice feature, but when I think through the implications, I'd rather not have it. Your mileage might vary.

Now can someone write a fast, lightweight and feature rich Email and Calendar app so that I can get rid of Outlook?