In the announcement, Google claims “more than 10 million active users around the Globe,” a believable number considering the roughly 1-3 percent market share according to various estimates that the browser has been able to attract so far (3.4% of Mashable readers use it too).
In addition to removing the beta tag, Chrome has added a number of new features and fixes over the past few weeks, like a bookmark manager and fixing the problems with audio and video (they simply didn’t play sometimes … whoops). Additionally, one of Chrome’s most requested features and its perhaps biggest weakness versus competitors – support for extensions – is supposedly in the works.
I’ll admit, I’m one of those Chrome users – most of the time. The lack of support for extensions and the audio/video problems force me to switch back to Firefox several times each day, but Chrome’s speed makes my workday – reading hundreds of news items, responding to email and IMs, downloading files, searching Google, and working with WordPress – quicker and easier, which is enough of a sell for me.