I’m talking about Chrome for OS X, which is known in development right now as Chromium. I’ve been playing around with a few of the most recent builds and I have to say, the browser just keeps getting better. They still haven’t implemented most of the gestures I love (seriously, rotating two fingers to flip through tabs is wonderful), but it seems like new features are making the pre-alpha build almost every day, which can only mean good things for the future.

As a recent article on CNet points out, Chromium is also kicking some Apple ass in the speed department. Chromium comes in a solid 34% faster than Safari, which used to be king on almost any OS X machine.

It’s strange, I never really used to place much importance on my browser, but its become almost as important as the operating system. I spend so much of my time within a browser’s confines that it makes me curious just what Chrome OS is going to do for mobile computing. I love the sleek simplicity of Chrome (I also own a PC) which is only enhanced by the pure speed of the whole thing. Once it gets going on my Mac, I just might be in love.

For those of you looking to make a change, the guys at TechCrunch have put together a little program with an Automator script that will automatically check to see that you have the latest version of Chromium installed.

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