Google Chrome is getting full attention these days, not only for making the big step out of beta, but also for drawing positive reactions and reviews. Although many of us probably expected Google to keep testing, especially since long betas seemed to be one of their signature marks, Chrome is now in final release form.

Chrome may still be rough around the edges, and there are probably a lot of improvements Google still needs to do, but overall, the browser is sweet. Most importantly, the browser is FAST, which is probably one of the reasons why it has already attracted millions of devoted users (reportedly about 10 millions).

According to the company blog, Chrome has offered improving speeds ever since the first beta came out, but things won’t stop here. Since the first beta, the V8 JavaScript engine runs 1.4 times faster on the SunSpider benchmark, and 1.5 times faster on the V8 benchmark – and there’s more where that came from, Google said.

The company has been working on improving everything from speed, to privacy controls, to video and audio  stability and performance, to bookmarks, and of course, security. Google Chrome's sandbox technology creates an additional layer of defense against harmful software, while the Safe Browsing feature provides protection against phishing and malware attacks for many browser users, Google explained.

But why did they choose to end beta so fast? Google wrote that the decision was based on the fact that their goals for stability and performance have been met, although there’s still a lot of work to be done.

So how good is Chrome? At this point, it’s good enough to stimulate some pretty bold predictions, which place Google’s browser somewhere around Firefox’s market share within two years, but that is just something we need to wait patiently for.