Impressive Google Chrome!!!

I love the part with the potato gun!

Is it really that fast? Is google chrome really faster than Firefox? I am still stuck on Flock (the browser with an integrated RSS reader / youtube video stream / facebook status updates and lots more - but the above is all I use) but this video looks really impressive! HOWEVER, what's stopping google from having a direct fiber optic cable to the various servers for the pages needed?

whatever the case... here goes...