They know who your friends are, where you live, where you work, and where you spend your free time. They know about your health, your love life, and your political leanings. These days they are even branching out into collecting your realtime GPS location and your DNS lookups. In short, not only do they know a lot about what you’re doing, they also have significant insight into what you’re thinking.”

If the above doesn’t bother you, fair enough, if it does, try Google Sharing .

Google’s motto is “Do No Evil” – make sure they don’t.

It will aim to use its browser to target more advertising, gather even more information about your browsing habits (which it happily turns over to the U.S government) and try to tempt you away from using Microsoft desktop office applications to its own growing armoury of web-based products.

Chrome is certainly very fast -outperforming Firefox and Safari, the two next fastest browsers, but Firefox’s add-ons and themes make it by far and away the number one choice.