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If you're looking for a modern, blazingly fast, multi-process browser that runs on old PPC machines albeit running Leopard or better, there's Stainless which is inspired by Chrome.

The point of using (now and even after Chrome is released) Stainless is its nifty "parallel sessions" feature (i.e. log into the same site with different accounts simultaneously) -- something Chrome, FF and Safari don't have.

But they aren't... SEPARATED INTO PROCESSES!

Check out Stainless for Leopard... it's still lacking a few features, but it's coming together quite well.

Stainless is the only Chromium-based browser so-far that does what I hoped Chrome would do: let me have true separate sessions in each tab or window. To be clear: I can be logged in to every one of my gmail accounts in different tabs at the same time. It's still fairly immature, but hopefully it'll get to the point where I can use no-script and be done with FF.

Despite our hopes, FF is not immune to the Mozilla disease, that almost lupus-like systemic breakdown over time, inflicting its greatest damage just at its most critical point in life, when its every extremity is needed to fend off competitors but each slowly degenerating to useless dead weight easily torn, eaten, spat out on the remains of its predecessors.

If you're on os x, you should try out Stainless. It's quite good, and based on some of the same ideas as chrome, only more mature. I've been using it as my primary browser (above safari, firefox, or the new safari beta) for some time.

It's missing a few things, but honestly, I don't care. It's sleek, simple and multi-processed.

Actually one of my favorite features is the unified address/search bar. Only problem is I have to go to google first to search for queries that have periods and no white space.

Chromium (the open source basis for Chrome) is available to download and compile, and you can also download unofficial binaries if you're really dying to see how Chrome for OS X is coming along.

And if you want to experience what a one-process-per-tab feels like on the Mac, you can check out the Chrome-inspired OS X browser, Stainless.

Seems like an apropos article to throw tangential news at: the WebKit based Stainless (for Mac only, Leopard req.) introduced a completely new browser innovation yesterday, which IMHO is more important than raw speed:

From MacNN:
Version 0.5 of Stainless introduces the concept of "parallel sessions," which let users log into a single site with multiple simultaneous accounts. In accessing Gmail for example, three different inboxes can be loaded across three separate tabs. The content is further integrated into bookmarks, allowing several site logins to be loaded in short order.

Original article here.

Stainless (multi-process browser) + WebKit Nightly frameworks (SquirrelFish Extreme) = a decent preview of Chrome on OS X

Download WebKit nightly. Download Stainless. Set Stainless prefs to load WebKit nightly frameworks. Bingo: super fast, multi-processed browser you can use now.

Mac users (well, Leopard Mac users) who want a one-tab-per-process browser can use Stainless while they wait for Chrome:

stainlessapp.com