Stainless has a lot of potential. As mentioned already, it handles Flash better than any other browser I've tried. Why can't Chrome or other browsers run this efficiently?

It does lack many features, which makes it a poor choice for daily use, but as a light browser or for viewing YouTube, it is one of the better options.

Kudos to the Adium team. Adium just gets better with age. Version 1.5 brings several enhancements and some new UI elements to what is already the best IM client on the Mac. Adium has been stable for me for years and it works great.

I'm amazed at the number of users who comment only to complain about the version numbering. Get over it already. The user often doesn't need to know or care what version they have, and because Google Chrome updates automatically the user always has the latest version of the browser. It's actually a good thing. For years I worked in a call center helping users who had browsers that were years old and were susceptible to security threats or unable to access services on the web because of it. Does the browser do what a browser should do? Chrome does what it sets out to do. Rate it based on that, not your dislike over something so trivial as the numbering. And the same goes for Firefox.

As for the browser, Chrome was built from the ground up on the Mac. It's not a port of the PC version, and for that I give the Google team kudos. It feels very native to the Mac and while not as speedy as its PC or Linux brothers, IMO, it makes for a nice Mac browser alternative on the Mac. I don't see the massive speed that others rave about, but it's on par with other browsers on the Mac. Where it really shines is its features: sandboxing, tab overview, regular updates, tabs on top, easy search engine customization, extension support, etc. Where it fails are: the download manager, lack of native power features such as type-ahead-find, Growl support, inability to save multiple themes (I've lost a lot of good themes this way), and strict adherence to making the browser as slim as possible, which stifles innovations. Luckily, there are developers who create wonderful extensions that add type-ahead-find functionality, tabs to the front, Safari-like reader functionality, etc. that make Google Chrome a usable, powerful browser for those of use who want an enjoyable browsing experience.

When I used Safari this was the plugin that made the browser usable for me. It used to offer features that are no longer available, but I commend the developer(s) for keeping it alive and I know they are adding features all the time, albeit slowly. But it takes time to recode the software, and that is understandable.

I LOVE the quick search feature; being able to right-click a selection of text on a page and choose to search it in any one of your customized search engines is a great feature I miss in other browsers. I like how this plugin also handles URL bar searches by displaying the search engine/site chosen. I miss site alterations the most.

Overall, a great extension that is worthy of your time if you're a Safari user.

Sad to see Flock go. I liked it a lot and used it quite a bit in the days when it was using the Gecko engine. Then I saw they had switched to WebKit using the Chrome method of separating tabs into their own processes, which I like. But I could never find out if they were sending data to Google or not, so I didn't use it. I didn't need the social networking features, but I loved the interface and the concepts behind Flock, basically a Firefox built on top of Chrome. Hopefully the code gets picked up. The Flock FAQs states that the development team is now working on games for social media and mobile platforms. I wish them well. They obviously have some very skilled developers.