This may seem a bit random for this blog, but Web 2.0 is only as good as the tools that deliver it.

Using Web 2.0 applications may have been viewed through the lens of either Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox (on a Windows machine), but now a third alternative has come forward and I think it has just taken the lead in the “horse race:” It’s Google’s Chrome web browser!

I’ve been noticing that IE and FF have routinely been consuming 150M and even up to 300M on my Vista machine. Both feel clunky and slow.

But I’ve been using Google’s new Chrome browser and I’m shocked how fast and snappy it is — AND how stable, even though it’s still in “Beta.” A quick check of RAM consumption shows it taking only 20-30M of RAM for similar usage scenarios as IE and FF.

Try it yourself and see what you think: http://www.google.com/chrome