Chrome is a better browser than Firefox for the simple reason that it has superior software architecture. Google made some important decisions when it came to engineering their new browser, such as running each tab in a separate process and writing their own Javascript Virtual Machine (V8) from the ground up to do things right from the start, such as compiling javascript and doing precise garbage collection. I downloaded it yesterday and I have been using it non-stop since. It is now my primary browser. There really is no contest when I compare it with Firefox, IE and Safari, all of which I have installed and continue to use. Firefox is a much better browser than IE to be sure, but I've been having a lot of problems with Firefox for some time now. When I first started using Firefox, it was pretty stable, but somewhere along the line they managed to upgrade Firefox into less stable software. Firefox 2 began to crash frequently and everyday. It became practically unuseable for me. I switched over to Firefo - Richard Catto from FriendFeed MT Plugin