The latest Google chrome browser beta is making me rethink my ‘default browser’ choice. Â Two reasons:
1) The new V8 javascript engine is very quick. Â In fact, it wins this race on the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmarks easily (smaller number is better):
Testbed: Mac Pro, 2 x 2.26 GHz, OS X 10.6.3
Firefox 3.6.3 861.0ms
Safari 4.0.5 432.0ms
Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta  320.4ms
2) 1Password has a plugin extension that now puts your passwords a click away. Â It’s not full-featured (you still have to hit return after selecting the appropriate set of credentials) but it works.
http://www.google.com/chrome/
Update (6/7/2010)
Safari 5.0 322.6 ms
Google Chrome (5.0.375.55) Â 324.6 ms
So, for the moment, Safari’s faster…wonder what Google did in the move from 5.0.375.29 to 5.0.375.55 to slow the javascript down a couple of milliseconds?