I don't like that it doesn't use the native look for Windows. It's just a "skin" type thing that looks like Vista. It doesn't really fit in XP... nitpicky, but I'm kind of OCD like that.

I haven't seen any issues with the rendering, but as I understand it, WebKit is good stuff.

It doesn't seem very new and exciting to me... just more of the same with a weird-ass interface.

I gotta say, I kinda like it. I will keep an eye on the further development.

It passes Acid 2. You may need to wait for it to load or refresh.

I like the look a lot on Vista. If it doesn't fit with XP, then that's not good. I hate when applications are like that. I like that there is no menu bar or status bar—I don't use them on a web browser. It's very similar to how I have Firefox configured.

But without extensions, it just won't compare to FF. I'd rather have a slightly slower web browser that I have more control over.

That is assuming they continue to develop it. I wouldn't expect much more than keeping the renderer up to date.

With extensions, yes. I don't though (unless on a mini-laptop) because I put the address bar on the same line as the menu bar and get rid of all of the buttons.

Hmm. that's not too shabby actually.

I added some benchmark results to my last post, in case someone missed it.

Somehow I found an IP listing for SunSpider Javascript Benchmark (the domain is not working for me for some reason) and while I wait on IE7 to run it's tests, I'll post the results I got for the other four:

Firefox (3.0.1): 4449.8ms +/- 1.0% link
Chrome (0.2.149.27): 2190.8ms +/- 2.2% link
Safari (3.1.2): 5325.4ms +/- 0.4% link
Opera (9.52): 6111.4ms +/- 1.2% link
IE7 (XP SP3): Too slow, and I started too late in the day. I thought 45 minutes would be enough time to run the damn tests...

[edit] Added version numbers for historical reasons.

It sure feels light. I thought I'd have to install Flash player, did they do that automatically?

I've come to really appreciate that feature.

edit: Oh, crap! there's no middle mouse click scroll. Fuck this I'm going back to Firefox.

There's mouse wheel support. It's the click middle button and move the mouse that's not support.

BTW, it seems the flash installer prefers Opera over Firefox on my computer for some reason... I wish I knew why that was.

That's too funny. They spend all that time talking about how it can't crash, then it doesn't work. I wonder if, when the main controller process crashes, if it leaves the rest of the processes running. That would be a bitch of a memory leak for the average user.

Chrome seems to be quite geek oriented.
A couple quotes from the program:
"Statistics for Nerds"
"Incognito mode protects you from blah blah, but you still have to worry about blah, blah, secret service agents and people behind you"

Just because you call them graphic novels doesn't mean they're not comics.

EDIT: top section removed

EDIT: to avoid unneccesary offence, I mean to make no inference about America from the correlation between living in it and potentially being a part of the subgroup of "adults willing to buy comics". If anything, take it as a complement that America has such a diverse range of subcultures. My point is that I don't think Google are aiming anywhere near the mainstream right now. I'll wager they're hoping to get a core of nerd early adopters to push the browser, once more stable, to the various people for whom they end up doing free computer maintenance. But they've made a cultural misstep by using a form of presentation that even nerds tend to leave behind in most international jurisdictions; it looks even worse when they're namechecking other countries apprently without even really being sure where they are other than "somewhere in Europe, beyond France".