Ok – so right now I am beta testing two different browsers – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 and Google’s new Chrome. There both VERY good. I am a pretty hardcore Microsoft fan. I have used piles of other software including other operating systems when they used to exist (Mac, OS/2, Linux, Unix) and I keep coming back to Microsoft.

I am actually writing this update in Chrome just to see how stable it is and how it deals with more complex websites. So far so good. It is a very simple browser and incredibly fast compared with IE. I know a lot of people use Firefox but I really don’t like it. I find it renders a lot of pages in a fairly ugly way and you have to constantly download plug-ins etc. I’ve used Safari for Vista and although it looks nice (as you would expect from Apple) it doesn’t really distinguish itself from IE.

Chrome is definitely taking advantage of Google’s search engine ability by offering suggestions as you are typing in the url.

Anyhow – if Chrome somehow convinces me to switch from IE it will be a miracle but – stranger things have happened.

P.S. First strike for Chrome – it’s not picking up my paragraph breaks in Spaces editor. Not a good start.