This morning when I saw the news about a new browser being released I thought to myself.  Awww #$%^%, thats all's I need is another stupid rendering engine to write code for. Not even 20 mins later my client came in and said hey did you see the thing about the new Google browser ? Again @#$$#@, and I waived him out of the room and told him not to get excited about such things because it would just cause him to have to have me work more.

However, I was wrong, dead wrong.

After reading the introduction here. I was impressed, even if was in comic book style.

So I fired up the download over at google.com, and got it installed on my home machine here.

I have more testing to do, but so far it seems snappy, and I really like the start page and UI improvements. It would be real interesting to see if I could hookup the Visual Studio debugger or something to this and see what the performance is really like. More review to come later.

Edit 1: Just found a problem with ASP.NET's AJAX Extensions. Modal Popup doesnt quite work right. Maybe I shouldnt get so excited. 

Edit 2: It does have a built in DOM Inspector, Memory Footprint viewer and Javascript console. So many points for that.

Edit 3: The opening speed is very impressive, and I like the default home page with the 9 most recent viewed pages as well.