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Yay Webkit.

According to Chromes about tab, run it in VMs and when I am forced to use windows, it uses WebKit and KHTML. For being Beta it is a great browser, the only time I heard of it crashing is when trying to run it through a remote connection, then it crashes with a great error window:

"Opps Google Chrome has crashed... s**t!"

and of course it sends backtrace info back to Google if you opted to do so when you download it. One thing I like about it better than Firefox is when reporting a incompatible webpage, on top of making you fill in all the details there is a checkbox where you can tell it to take a screen shot and send it along with our report (good if the page has some long error message you don't feel like typing in or can't explain how the page is messed up).

Yes Google Chrome is open source but to a limit, it is currently licensed under the BSD Protective license. Also from Googles blogs the Linux and Mac port is under way, but the reason it is taking so long is because of one of the functions used by Chrome, winhttp stack, they are having problems recreating this on Linux and Mac and announced they may need to do a rewrite so that no version uses this. Until then Codeweavers has a less superiour port, and I think you can get it to run in Wine.