>>One extra little problem I noticed - on Russian sites it offers me to translate the page. I'm wondering how can I turn this off, but only for Russian.
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>Take a look at http://chromestory.com/2010/03/how-to-disable-the-auto-translation-bar-in-google-chrome/
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>> click on the wrench menu, select Options, go to the “Under the hood” tab.
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>> click on “Change fonts and language settings” and go to the “Languages” tab.
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>> add the languages you use the read web pages.
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>(I do not have chrome here to test)

You should give it a try - it's a zillion times faster than IE.