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If you’re a follower of the antics of “The Big G”, then you will be all over their Chrome browser. Having used it for quite a while now, I can say that it sure is a neat piece of software. Well, it just got neater with the addition of extension support and the opening of the extension library. Hold your horses though – it is only in the “Developer Channel” version (v4 series).

Apart from the odd concern about privacy regarding what you type into the address bar (since Google use it to generate suggestions and therefore can track your browsing habits if they wish), what Google have done is shake up the browser market yet again. Like Firefox did to Internet Explorer, promoting standards-compliance, extensibility and customisation, Chrome is now doing to all the other browsers. It is the fastest one out there by quite some margin, and is more stable too. Security is supposedly beefed up too, and the combination of all these features have spurred Mozilla on to improve their own browser, and quickly.

With Firefox 3.6 boasting even faster JavaScript performance, a new look planned for 3.7 (which seems to closely mirror the stripped-down look of Chrome) and new improvements regarding extension stability, security and performance, the Battle of the Browsers looks to be far from over.