Do we need another browser?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7594808.stm

As a programmer and designer, I love Firefox, tolerate IE, don't have too much time for Opera, loathe AOL's built-in browser, and resign pretty much everything else to a distant memory. Anyone think we're in for a load of incompatibility problems with CSS and the like with Google? Or is it likely to follow Firefox's open-source standard and lever IE further away?

I use it right now and I am happy with it.

I've just downloaded and used google chrome.

I have to say it's fast and works well with my cubecart store as well as many other sites I decided to test briefly.

Thumbs up so far.

I'm sure it won't be an issue to designers/developers and the engines used for each browser is almost the same if not the same. I personally don't think there is a requirement for this however. Firefox 3 is terrific and we are starting to move away from the (block your ears designers) Nutscrape 4 days!!

I just finally took the plunge into FF3 and Google Chrome:

- Firefox 3 didn't work when I upgraded it - I managed to get it working by running by disabling plugins (that it inherited from FF2). Not too mad about the formatting of the drop-down history suggestions as you type, seems a bit clunky, but I suppose I'll get used to that.

- Google Chrome I think would look better on Vista than XP because of the transparent window header. It seems quite basic, hasn't given me any trouble, and perhaps because of its simplicity, I may recommend it to customers over the other browsers, because there are less obvious settings to break. I also heard that when it crashes, the program still runs, where just the affected tab can be disabled.

So, looks like I'm sticking with Firefox.

After a week of chrome I returned to Firefox 3

Yeah I installed chrome and looked at it a little but didn't want to make me change from using FF3.

I've tested Google Chrome its pretty fast but the addons are missing so I'd continue with FF.

Yep, my Google Chrome days were short lived when I fired up Firefox 3 for the first time.

Quite like its clean appearance, speed and built in spell checker but one thing I am not keen on is its such a resource hog, every time you open a new tab it uses another process. Check it out using task manager, I suppose that now days new PC's come with 2GB ram so its not too bad but with 9 tabs open at once its using a chunk of ram.