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Chrome - The Browser of Surfing Champions

" I don't always browse the web, but when I do, I prefer Google Chrome "...  In case you haven't installed it yet, the Chrome browser is quite powerful.  Admittedly, I was not an early adopter of Chrome; but once I got on it, I was hooked. Having been online since before the days of BBS's and 56K modems, I've ridden the wave of browsers from the  revolutionary Mosaic browser , to the free academic Netscape browser, Microsoft's ubiquitous, yet " monopolistic " Internet Explorer, the open source Mozilla Firefox and now Google Chrome. Graph demonstrating that each new browser rapidly takes a major market share and slow decline. (graph predates Chrome's launch) Chrome is quite a different browser; in that it's actually a mini-operating system.  It's even package on a stand-alone, low cost laptop called a  Chromebook  which are even rented on Virgin America flights .  It's literally lightning fast in loading websites and has