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Not just a “what’s my IP address” site – FindMeByIP.com shows all kinds of information about your browser, including support for HTML5 Forms and CSS3 selectors. An invaluable resource.

Those just installing Chrome will observe that it’s incredibly fast—as in, Safari levels of fast. This is certainly a plus when many alternate browsers (hi, Firefox) are, well, not. Page renders are quick and keyboard commands can keep up with my 140wpm fingers, something Safari sometimes even has trouble with from time to time.

I’m missing the Safari keyboard shortcuts that allow you to access the bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar with option-1/2/3 and so on.

Chrome has substantially better JavaScript performance than Safari on my machine.

Chrome beta (full report)

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Total:                  601.2ms +/- 5.6%
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Safari 4 (full report)

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Total:                  699.0ms +/- 2.5%
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Significant improvements across nearly all test cases.

The beta version is now available.

A lesser-known but informative online book by Google.