Yesterday I upgraded Chrome on Mac to 4.0.233.8 which seemed to be a much stabler release. I found Firefox 3.5 on Mac snow leopard became more and more unstable especially while Flash player. It might have something to do with the Flash 9 installed with Flex Builder. But anyway, Chrome seems much stabler than Firefox and of course, faster. I also found Xmarks for Chrome working like a charm.

One interesting thing is while comparing the memory consumption between Firefox and Chrome. While having about 11 tabs open, Firefox was using about 260MB memory and Chrome only used about 100MB which was surprisingly good. However, I found there are more than 15 "Google Chrome Helper" process also exist where each process take about 30MB memory. Whenever I created a new tab, a new "Google Chrome Helper" showed up in "Activity Monitor", if I killed the process, the tab literally died. So, if I added all the memory used by each "Google Chrome Helper" together, Chrome is a much bigger memory sucker.

Another cool feature about Chrome was the latest themes designed by artists. And my favorite is Yulia Brodskaya