Startup speed
It’s so much faster than Firefox and IE when loading, it saves a load of time when I’m on my netbook (which is whenever I’m travelling on business). It can start in about three seconds, whereas Firefox (with its plugins checks) can take up to 25 seconds!

Browsing speed
Forget just the beginning – while you’re browsing the net it just seems that Chrome is faster, it opens pages faster, opens tabs faster, you can drag your tabs around with no problem and danger of crashing your whole window.

Instanced pages
Every tab you open on Chrome starts its own thread in the Windows task manager. This might sound like it’s not important, but it is because it means if somethin goes wrong on that page it won’t affect the whole of your browser if you close it (like on IE).

Google Chrome Extensions

One of the big reasons for the huge speed advantage that Chrome has over its rivals is it doesn’t yet have any plugins that people can write for it and you can download for it. This is set to change in the coming months, however, as Google have just announced that they are accepting submissions from developers using its Beta version to their official gallery. I really hope that the use of these Chrome extensions will not make the browser slower like FF and IE, but we will see. Whenever they release a chat emoticons extension, I’ll let you know too!