After about 10 minutes of playing, here are my initial thoughts in a nutshell: Chrome is FAST! Gmail and google docs are lightning quick. Starting a new tab has a very opera-like quick start (only this is automatically created as you use the browser). Each tab shows up in windows as its own process under task manager (request: stick part of the URL there so we can nuke one by name!). The interface is un-obtrusive, imported all my firefox settings and favorites just fine, and renders the pages I have tested it on just fine. I like it, will be using it as a daily browser here for the future, and will let you know how it goes! Mac fans will just have to hold onto their macbooks, this is a windows only release so far, but you will get yours some day =)
*edited* - Check out the html / style inspector (right click anything in the page, choose inspect element) - you can view the derived styles, and edit the html in-line and see the changes as you make them. Super sweet!
*edit* OK, I keep finding cool goodies. Right click the task bar for chrome, and choose 'task manager'. You get a window with each tab, the memory and CPU that each tab is taking up, and even the network usage of that tab (how awesome is that). The rabbit hole gets deeper though, click 'stats for nerds' to get a very detailed memory page. Go google go, appeal to us techies, I love it! =)
*edit* OK, it has not been an hour of use yet, but its now my default browser =)
#1 by andy matthews - September 2, 2008 at 4:24 PM