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Is innovation in browsers where it should be? We've reported before on how most of the innovation is going on in open source browsers, as Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to lose market share. This week, at two separate conferences, officials from Google and Mozilla have weighed in on how browsers need to improve. Notably, they primarily agree, and their focus doesn't seem matched by Microsoft with Internet Explorer.

As we noted yesterday, Google has introduced a new version of its open source Chrome browser that is much faster than previous versions, and also faster than Firefox 3.5, Beta 4. It's worth downloading if you haven't been using Chrome, and you'll get it automatically if you have been using it. Since Chrome was introduced, many useful collections of resources, tips, scripts and plugins have appeared online. Here is an updated roundup of our favorite guides and tools for getting more out of Chrome--all of them free. ?With its newfound performance and these customization resources, you can get a lot out of Chrome.

There's a new version of Google's Chrome open source browser available, as the team behind it has announced. Google is citing up to 30 percent performance increases on JavaScript-heavy tasks. I've taken it for a spin, comparing it to Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, which also has very fast JavaScript performance thanks to its TraceMonkey technology. The new Chrome does work faster than the Firefox beta at this point, and the performance is another way that Google's browser is maturing and innovating.