It also supports custom skinning via themes-often based on famous artists-which some may find fun. (I like the vertical space savings, but to each his own.) It also has a new tab page that includes thumbnail links to recently visited and most visited pages, cited as the inspiration for Safari 4's 'Top Sites' feature. One of Chrome's defining features include title bar-based 'top tabs,' which were much maligned when they appeared in betas of Safari 4. Developer preview builds have been available for a few months, but we found the latest-build 4.0.223.8-quite usable. Several release versions have already been available for Windows, and beta releases of version 4 are also available for Windows, but no final or beta vesions have been released for Linux or Mac OS X. The developer preview is based on the upcoming version 4 of Google's upstart browser, and it's important to note that although it's publicly accessible, it's still not quite a beta.

We decided to take it for a spin after Google's Sergey Brin mentioned during the Web 2.0 Summit that he is using developer preview builds on a daily basis. If digging through build trees for a Mac build of Chromium (the open source project behind Chrome) was more trouble than you wanted to go through, here's some good news for you: developer preview builds for Mac OS X are actually pretty usable for most browsing needs.

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