Google announced just yesterday that they were launching their own browser and just a day later the beta is avaliable. 

I’ve been playing with it all night and I have to say, I’m quite impressed.  There is still along way to go (time for some plugins, I think), but here are a few of the features:

• Clean UI – Tabular navigation from above the address bar makes sense and the drag and drop functionality is neat
• Homepage – The homepage is neat, it allows you to see your most visited sites, latest bookmarks, recently closed tabs and other things that should help with your browsing experience
• Single Address bar – No seperate search box and fast searching on sites other than google too.
• Ability to create “apps” on your desktop, letting you open stuff like Gmail in it’s own window quickly and effecantly without having to open the browser itself
• Fast browsing – seems much quicker than Firefox and IE (perhaps due to the lack of plugins)
• New Java tools – making javascript and applets pretty quick
• Tab processes – each tab has it’s own process so if one of the sites your visiting is causing problems it doesn’t crash your whole browsing session

I’m sure there are plenty of others too – it runs using Webkit (Safari) so it would be a good idea to download it and make sure your sites render OK, which it should if it works in Firefox and IE!