That’s right, Google’s Little Browser That Could is out of beta, and strutting around town with an official 1.0 label.
Sporting some fancy tricks for Windows users, and based on Webkit, (like Safari, Opera and others) Google’s browser is growing quickly in usage, due to its speed and stability, but still only is used for roughly 1% of all browsing.
It’s hard to believe Chrome has only been out for a few months. PCWorld:
Still, taking a product out of beta this quickly is anything but ordinary for Google. Gmail, which launched in 2004, is still listed as a beta. Google Finance, Google Health, Google Docs, and Google Blog Search all debuted long before Chrome and are still in beta. Yet Chrome, just 100 days after its birth, is now a full-fledged release.
The future of this product is hard to gauge- the Mac and Linux versions have yet to show up. Time will tell.