After a bit of incubation, a little turning away, I’m finding myself back in Google Chrome.  The interface is very clean–that’s one big appealing item.  There are built in developer tools (should have known better) such as an inspector element, javascript console and javascript debug.  These are quite handy right out of the, er, box.  The performance is comparable to FF/IE, and as the picture below shows, the Task Manager shows Chrome with the lowest memory use (memory is still not unlimited for me, especially with MacBook Pro using VMWare/BootCamp — sorry, not fully on Mac or Linux here).  Chrome could become the favorite.

Ultimately, in the Windows environment, I’ve seen that IE has the best memory usage, which one would hope should be the case.  Chrome doesn’t clutter the interface up with much in the way of buttons and toolbars.  Keeping this minimalist approach makes sense.

So if I want a no frills moment, Chrome will be the way to go.    As plug-ins become available, it will be interesting to see how detrimental the result becomes.  Off to check for add-ons, plug-ins, widgets, and all manner of goodies for this refreshing browser.  I’m chrome-browsered, google-injected, and steppin’ out over the wifi…