Google has launched its own web browser - Chrome.

Having downloaded it (and writing this post on it, although the editor doesn't seem to be working 100%), I must say that it's pretty good - and I'm sure it'll only get better.

I won't go into detail about all the features  - you can read them here -  and read an overview behind Google's thinking here.

I'm not going to kick Firefox into touch yet, I love the personalisation that is provided through the add-ons - but there are definitely a lot of advantages to Chrome:

• It's very, very stable.  If a website in a tab 'goes bad', it doesn't affect the other tabs, and the whole browser doesn't crash.
• It's very quick.  Pages seem to load very quickly.
• The interface is very clean and intuitive.  It also has some features that I haven't seen before, but as a lot of the code behind Chrome is also found in Safari, I expect it isn't all brand new.

I expect it's going to get better and better - and as it's also open source, I expect Firefox to adopt a lot of the features and functionality that has been developed for Chrome.