I know, it's strange that their beta goes straight to version 2... but besides that, it's pretty amazing the speeds they're pulling out of it. It's already WAY faster than IE8 and even faster than FF3.... but apparently the benchmarks of version 2 are over 30% faster than the beta Chrome!
Now, if they could just release that extension API....
Read more:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347611,00.asp