Goodbye Firefox, Hello Google Chrome – Firefox vs Google Chrome on Kubuntu

Since the inception of Firefox, it has been (more or less) the defacto standard browser for a wide array of corporations, groups and people. It quickly rose to be the dominant browser due to it's open source nature, it's speed and it's ability to properly display a web page. There are plenty of other reasons (like it is/was much more secure than IE6 ... no clue how it stacks up to IE8 though), but one of the most important reasons was it's add-ons/extensions. The ever benevolent (as benevolent as any rich and powerful US corporation could be ... which isn't much) Google announced, a while back, it's plans to create a browser. Rumor upon rumor spread and eventually it was actually released. And it did surprisingly well. As of this writing Google Chrome is up to version 5.0.375.99 in the Beta (or so). It's based off of the Chromium project which is open source, while Google Chrome isn't technically 100% open source. Either way, it's a extremely fast and powerful browser which makes headway each and every month.