Lately I've been strictly using the
Google Chrome open source project
Chromium. Besides the added privacy (various Google additions such as auto update,
RLZ, etc are removed from the Chromium project), you have access to nightly updates.
There is a free application available to Windows users that checks for "stable" Chromium nightly builds. You can
download it here. Recent Chromium builds have the newer version of
Webkit compiled in, and pass the
Acid3 test.
If you are worried about blocking advertisements, I highly recommend
AdMuncher. There have been complaints that you shouldn't need to pay for software to make a browser "functional", but AdMuncher removes advertisements for ALL browsers and MANY applications, not just one browser (such as is the case with popular Firefox extension Adblock). It's worth the money, and does a better job than Adblock.
If would like to make Google searches in Chromium as private as possible, go to Options and Manage. Create a new provider called "
Scroogle", make the keyword "
g", and the search URL "
https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=%s". Make it the default provider. Now when you wish to search Google simple enter "
g <search term>" in the address bar in Chromium.
Scroogle allows
SSL, anonymous logs, and privatization of search terms.
