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I have been a diehard Safari user for a number of years, now. It was sleek, it was sexy. It did things lightning quick, and was always ready for me to add in another tab or window. It didn't matter, the thing was a fucking workhorse. Then came Safari 4 and Snow Leopard.

Back in the days before Snow Leopard (ok, I know it was only about four and a half months ago), Ares, Leopard, and I lived a great existance with Safari 3. We laughed, we played, we surfed, we watched Macbreak Weekly and surfed Fake Steve Jobs on Blogspot. It was an enjoyable time. I learned of the Safari 4 Public Beta and downloaded it right away. There was absolutely no issue to speak of. All was great until that fateful day, August 28, 2009.

I drove out to Syracuse and picked up my copy. On the way home I grabbed some munchies and Dew. Once home, I drew the shades, grabbed all manner of storage devices and good luck charms, and began my daylong task of upgrading to the "latest-and-greatest." In less than an hour I was up and running, and spent the rest of the day weeding through needed and not-needed files and programs.

I think it was within the first hour that I noticed something was amiss. It seemed mostly with the native Safari 4 that came with Snow Leopard. I got more beach balls than a fucking neo-hippie concert circa 1994. Every time I started Safari it would hang for about 10 seconds, unusable, with that fucking Spinning Beachball of Death.

Now, I have tried moving on to Firefox (fucking memory hug), Camino (not much better and kind of flaky), and lastly Google Chrome. I love Chrome! My biggest issue with Chrome (though it's not really their issue) is that I use this wonderful piece of software called 1Password. It is the BEST password management doohicky ever dreamed of. It has plugins for many browsers, nearly every one I have used... except... you guessed it, CHROME.

According to the Google Blog (found here), it seems as though Google has ambitions to release a Google Chrome OS sometime in the second quarter of 2010. The new project will be open source and targeted at the netbook market.

According to their blog, "Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web."

As with many of the Google products I use, on a daily basis, I only see great things coming from this. Android is a winner, in my book, and I am sure it's greatness will be a part of this endeavor.

You can read more about it on Google's Blog.