auwal87:

Even though Google Chrome is still in Beta, while IE8 is just around the corner, and Firefox 3 is taking extreme lead, which of these three is giving the most of what you wanted as a webmaster?

what I like more from chrome is d fact that I can search google directly from the address bar, its cool.

yawa-ti-de:

typing an address in the address bar. Let's say I visited in the past 10 sites with "ing" in either the URL or the "title". A

auwal87:
@ seun, Chrome is still in Beta, check their website.

Seun:

Google Chrome Is Out Of Beta. Here is the Google Announcement.
Next time, try checking the site before asking someone else to check.

We're excited to announce that with today's fifteenth release we are taking off the "beta" label!

We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done. We are working to add some common browser features such as form autofill and RSS support in the near future. We are also developing an extensions platform along with support for Mac and Linux. If you are already using Google Chrome, the update system ensures that you get the latest bug fixes and security patches, so you will get the newest version automatically in the next few days. If you haven't used Google Chrome for a while, now might be a good time to give it another spin.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-things-google-chrome-needs-now-that-its-out-of-beta/

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A little while ago, Google announced the removal of the “Beta” tag from their brand new browser. Now, I have heard speculation that this is due to the fact that computer manufacturers won’t bundle software with “Beta” hanging around its neck. Normally Google applications stay in Beta for a very long time (see: Gmail), but after only a few months, Chrome is out in the wild with no reservations.

While this may be more of a marketing stunt than anything else, a “Gold” version of Chrome (that’s ironic!) must now assume the same responsibilities of the other browsers that have taken off their training wheels. Note that in this list I’m excluding most (but not all) of the things Google has explicitly promised to fix. These are in NO particular order.

Google just took their browser Chrome out of Beta. Google say they did so because their “goals for stability and performance have been met” (while disclaiming their “work is far from done”). But is that the real reason? Steve Gillmor at Techcrunch proposes another potential way to look at it; “Google’s open source browser has a number of eager customers, including OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] who can’t offer the browser until it is in full release.” Yesterday when Google’s plans started surfacing, Ionut Alex. Chitu commented, “Out of beta? That’s a joke, right? Maybe ’out of alpha’ is a more appropriate description.”

Google was and continues to be eager to get Chrome out to many people, Beta or not. They advertise for it using AdSense, they show special links on YouTube pages, and last not least, they promoted Chrome on their homepage.

yawa-ti-de:

as my friend smartsoft would say, "Cooooouuuuurrrrrttt!"

auwal, r u paid to prove things beyond a reasonable doubt? y not channel your talent into some useful tutorials here so we can all learn

Whether chrome is in beta or not is irrelevant to me. What is though is that when I code a site, that it looks good in all major browsers, chrome not being one of them for now and hence, the original intent of this post.

Cooooooouuuuuurrrrtttt!

Seun:

We can fight over whether Google Chrome should be in beta, but the fact is that it is not in beta.

ThePhantom:

@Seun

Curious, What does Nairaland stats  show about the browser type been used to view Nairaland?

Even though Google Chrome is still in Beta, while IE8 is just around the corner, and Firefox 3 is taking extreme lead, which of these three is giving the most of what you wanted as a webmaster?