I’ve been using it for a while and think its great. It replaced Firefox as my default browser.. and its not even the final version! But then again, what Google app isn’t out of beta?

Another feature I like is Dynamic tabs, which, because each tab is a separate process, means you can tear tabs off into separate windows easily. And you can put then back again. Incognito mode seems like it would be useful if you were… shopping for a gift for your girlfriend and you didn’t want her to see it. (Right…)

It’s also blazing fast.. faster than Firefox for me and any other browser I’ve used.

If Chrome had these three features–A Sidebar, RSS Feed ticker, and CSS3 Text Shadows–I’d switch to 100% Chrome tonight. That is one slick browser.

I think it’s great that shows up one more competitor in this market – greater competition – better result for us
Of course I`m not sure Google Chrome could ever be better agains FireFox and it’s great collection of addons, which are irreplaceable! Thanks for article! I`m checking Chrome right now too!

I’ve been using it for an hour or so. I can honestly say that I’m not really impressed with it (and no, I’m not those types who consider Google as their God, even though I use quite a lot of their products). I mean, the concept is beautiful, but it just hasn’t reached its full potential, yet.

I’ve gotten used to the tabs being on top of the URL box (which actually makes sense). I’ve experienced lightning-fast javascript performance, and most (not all) of my websites were rendered correctly.

A bug that I experienced immediately is that clicking the middle-mouse button doesn’t do anything in the browser (while in other browsers, it displays the mouse scrollbar-thing), which is VERY annoying for me. Also, there’s isn’t any RSS notifications that I could find (meaning notifying the user that there’s an RSS feed available on a particular page/site.

Being Google, I doubt this browser will get out of beta anytime soon. Heck, Gmail is still in beta.

The feature that I want most is plugin/theme capability. Other than that, it’s not that bad.

I like it a lot, but until they have add-ons, (*cough* Stumble Upon *cough*) I dont think I could switch over.

It’s about time SOMEONE gave Opera some credit. Opera invented speed dial, tabs, and the “awesome bar”, among other things. Opera never gets mass exposure cuz it has such low market share, but it’s really an innovative browser.

Just found it this morning and will give a go this afternoon.

Google owns YOUR contents if you agree to section 11 of the Chrome EULA:

11. Content license from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.

11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these actions.

It’s a great browser for sure, but it won’t be mainstream for quite a while. The start up speed is amazingly fast.

But there are some bugs still. For one some css markup make fonts out of whack (I’ve heard one of them is text-shadow). You could check my blog for an example of messy font rendering. The whole sidebar text is messed up (on mouse out). Also for some reason I can’t use the auto scroller (you know, when you click your mouse wheel to scroll).

Other than that 2 main point, chrome is a great browser. And it sure is bringing some new things to the market. I hope to see it grow very well.

Good Point Steve
I have been using Opera for a long time and I loved this browser.

Chrome is the browser that I’ve been looking for. It’s so simple and clean and boy does it work fast. All the previous sites that I have built for my clients also work perfectly. I think google actually said that if your site looks good in safari 3.01 that they will look just fine in chrome. Like Jeffrey said, once web dev. plugins start coming out that work nicely with the browser it will hands be my default browser. For the mean time I have so many add-ons in firefox that I rely on to work that it wont be replaced completely any time soon. Nice article.

all i can say is really nice. but firefox is still the best and i agree that Opera is the first to have the feature available in chrome

i have it installed in my PC.

I’ve just downloaded and had a mess around. I’d have to say it’s not as good as I expected. The UI is a bit bland like Internet Explorer and the omnibox just isn’t as good as Opera’s or Firefox’s. On the plus side, Chrome is ultra fast. It can run Javascript which Firefox and Opera just choke on.

In my opinion Opera is still the best browser around in terms of user experience and Firefox is still my default browser due to all the plugins.

So far I love chrome. Can’t wait for some developer plugins. As far as i am concerned…. any new weapon to destroy IE is fine with me, lol.

Great browser, nice and simple!! bit buggy with my gmail, but overall good start

I found it is a good fast browser!

Of course, all my sites look fine in it—it’s webkit essentially.

I don’t like the speed dial, I prefer Operas or fastdial addon for firefox.

I don’t like the omnisearch, it’s confusing as to whether it’s somewhere you’ve already been, or somewhere that google is showing you.

It is blazing fast with javascript pages and combined with google gears, once you’ve been to a page once before, you haven’t seen this speed yet. MSN.com took 7 seconds to load from a cleared cache in it, then once it was cached and “geared”, it took under 1 second to fully display. On a 2MB/768Kb ADSL line.

The best things about Chrome are: it’s completely open source, use webkit as the rendering engine, and V8 seem awesome.

The article here doesn’t mention it’s open source, but Google’s video about Chrome does. I think it very important that it’s open source, this way the whole community can benefit for any innovations Google has made and in the future Google can benefit from innovations made by the open source community.

this is really nive one. but there is a querry is it free or just for trial version? because when i’ve downed it there is a thankyou msg “thak you for trying chrome”!

what does it sense?

“any new weapon to destroy IE is fine with me, lol.” – Ara Abcarians, love it! Totally agree with you there!

I love Firefox, has been my default choice for browser since version 1, and is still the best browser out there by far. But I must say Chrome looks very promising indeed, I was watching my housemate play around with the Javascript debugger and process manager – very nice features indeed. I just wanna see a Mac release now so I can have a play with it!

@Jatin: I gues the message apears, because you test the BETA version and I bet Google can gather a lot more information about user behaviors.

love the new Chrome browser its got a simple look and is FAST! but i still use Opera as my defult.
what i love about Opera is the speed dail similar to what Chrome has and the magic wand witch stores all your passwords and the trash can if you close a window it is easy to open up again as it is allways in the trash and finaly as in Chrome if you click on something on a site that sould open in another window it just opens in a new tab.

i hope Chrome will bring us some good plugins

please type in the browser URL: “:%” (without the quotes -> :%) and the complete browser crashes! Lol, bug!

Waiting for a Mac release lol, but while I’m waiting, ill stick to FireFox.
Great article

I wasn’t so impressed with the browser – It has some great features… is it good enough to replace my FF or Opera…Not yet! let’s wait and see

Here is the (funny) User Agent given by Chrome:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)
AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/0.2.149.27
Safari/525.13

It could be useful.

The interface is ‘DA BOMB! I’m downloading!

waiting for plug-in stuffs…
till then firefox !

For everyone saying that they want to wait for developer addons, right click on a page and click on “Inspect Element”. It is essentially Firebug with YSlow already plugged in. I think I actually prefer Chrome’s developer tool as well, it found a js file I was still including (with symfony through the overall site config) that I forgot I already deleted and stopped using it. Firebug never told me that I was still including that file.

So far the things that Chrome brings to the table that no one else does:
1. Compiled JavaScript
2. Multi-threaded browsing capability
3. Sandbox mentality to tabs
4. Fully open source, unlike any of the other major browsers.
5. Compiled JavaScript (I know I already said this but it sounds sooo nice to say it)

As web developers we need to be hoping and pushing for Google Chrome to make a HUGE splash. Chrome is the way the web should be viewed; Large scale JavaScript apps that work as well as a C++ app on your desktop, and standards compliant browsers that we don’t have to hack. We are in 2008, coming up on 2009, it is absolutely amazing that we are still basing our browsing capabilities off of 10-15 year old ideas. Why haven’t we compiled JavaScript before? It makes sense to do so. Why haven’t we built process independent tabs that are sandboxed to increase security? Everyone said that Firefox 3, IE8, Opera 9.2 are all the “next-gen” of browsers but that is wrong, they are 3 old men with fancy new suits and a little viagra, Chrome is next gen and once some developers fork the code and start providing alternative versions of Chrome, it will start taking over.

I just found out that the opacity for font doesn’t really work in Chrome. check out http://www.smarthouse.ch and check out the topnavigation. if the links aren’t active they should have an opacity of 50%. the links in the leftnavigation work ’cause they’re images, i guess.

Haven’t tried it yet being a Linux user, but already I am conflicted. What I read and my past experiences tell me that this will be a great browser and I want it, but seriously, when/where will they stop? I notice somebody above thinks Googles entry into the browser market will be good for competition, but for how long? These guys can easily destroy all the hard work Mozilla have done getting market share, and the iminent failure of the Microsoft model will leave Google with yet another monopoly. They are mirroring the internet, have practically total control over how we search it, and are now bidding to control the software we use to view it. Next will be the hardware (gphone) and the OS that it runs. Total domination by a single party of the most powerful resource on the planet. IM SCARED :S

I really love it , im using right now , woop woop , but i do prefer speed dial to most visted sites , because when you clear your history it goes :S …. wish there was a speed dial option

I’d use it if I could tag my bookmarks and be able to search by tags through my omnibar. I’ve been doing a lot of bookmark-tagging lately.

Would also be nice to have a way to subscribe to RSS feeds through it.

Verdict: They stole the logo design from Simon, a 1980’s electronic memory game.

Some benchmarks show its rocking!
http:/chrome-tips.blogspot.com

Some are missing the point and just want to hate on Google.

Being based on WebKit, this browser is on par with Safari and any standards based browser right out of the box, as WebKit passes Acid2 and Acid3 tests.

It will have bugs. Firefox wasn’t perfect either. It’s only been out a day, give them credit.

I don’t care about plugins, plugins are part of the reason Firefox likes to chomp up 150-200MB of my memory. The only one I need is WebDev toolbar, the rest aren’t all that great, admit it. I left Chrome on for about 4 or 5 hours with many tabs open. It was only using 7MB of system memory. How about that? That is enough to get me to switch over right there.

Their goal is to create a BROWSER to browse, I think they nailed it. It’s quick, its clean, the interface is not cluttered. I think it rules.

Also, I have nothing to hide, Google can look at whatever they want of mine.

I talked about it three years back, suggested my ops manager at Google, and the reply was Google would never get into a browser war, hehe, I knew it would eventually happen, I dropped in a whole lot of other ideas too, including a free to use Google O.S; any ways I am kinda happy, kinda confused, Chrome sure has some nice features, Its built on apple’s safari and mozilla’s Firefox and a lot of home work by Googlers so it hell has to be pretty functional, I am just waiting to see what else do they roll out, I am no Google hater, but the sure are pushing me to the edge, why? check out KNOL, and may be you could read a lil more of my rantings on http://mutantofevolution.blogspot.com

I found it is a fast browser and really simple. However, it seems to start a new process each time I open a site on a new tab within the same window. Weird stuff.

Already using, and it is great. it has a few bugs to work out, and some minor tweaks to make it better, but, it will more than likely be my default browser very soon.

My word… this is super fast. I am a huge fox fan, but this is really something. Heck, I’ve even got a huge amount of memory available which firefox would of eaten twice over. Okay, it is very buggy… but so was the fox in the beginning. Seems google is out to take a big chunk of the market. Capitalism at it’s best/worst depending how you view it.

@Greg: Dynamic tabs are also part of Firefox. Also dynamic links, you can click and drag hyperlinks on webpages from one tab, to another tab, or a completely seperate window, or a completely seperate program. Same with images and chunks of txt.

It’s nothing new I’m afraid

However, it will be interesting to see how Google take this on, will they do the “we’re working for developers!” while also undermining all the hard work Firefox have done in trying to bring web standards, while crushing the poorly made IE6/7 – or will they really work hard with all the browsers out there to make sure everyone is using standardised practises so web developers, like most of us reading this, don’t have to constantly change the way we’re coding in order to make it look right in every single different broswer out there.

Like the article says, we won’t know this for some time.

chrome is faster than the others, i like it but i cant change with mozilla now. Also i want to google toolbar with google chrome

I’ve been a hardcore Firefox user since I can remember… But that commitment has largely been due to the fantastic developer tools and the fact that Firefox always seems to get it right.

I’m sure Chrome will turn out to be a fantastic browser, but I won’t even touch it until there’s some sort of Firebug equivalent released, and even then… because of the particular type of clients I work for, the underdog browsers aren’t even considered for compatibility/rendering testing of sites. As far as they’re concerned, Safari and Opera don’t exist, and any Mac specific issue isn’t worth addressing.

Once Chrome can tote an impressive number of users they’ll be taken a bit more serious. You have to keep in mind most individuals wouldn’t be the least bit inclined to install another browser on a box that comes standard with Internet Explorer, because its not a matter that concerns the average user.

@Jake Holman: Firefox does not have dynamic tabs like Google. It is not the same feature at all. In Chrome each tab is a seperate process, essentially a seperate browser. If one tab errors out, the rest of them are fine. That is almost like saying that Windows Vista and Windows XP are exactly the same with just a new skin. In Vista, if a window craps out, just the window is affected and your other windows work just fine due to each having their own dedicated video memory.

I think you are also missing the overall point here, as it seems a lot of developers are. Chrome is open source, so it can be extended and forked to fit any need. They are using WebKit and V8, neither of which are tied into Chrome, obviously. This means that Google is already trying to push for standards. I fail to see how any of this can be tied back to “OMG All of Firefox’s hard work is lost because Google is using Webkit (a more standards compliant renderer than Firefox’s) and V8!”

Firefox, IE, and Opera all fail in the simple fact that each has their quirks that don’t follow standards completely. Why are there specific CSS rules that you can use in Firefox but are not part of the standards? What does that help when it comes to making the web standards compliant? So far Webkit is the purest of the renderers. It offers the most compliant renderer available.

In all I wish people would actually look at the feature set that Chrome has, and realize that this is stuff that is NOT in any other browser right now. None of the other browsers do multi-threaded browsing, no other browser has compiled JavaScript, no other browser works on a sandboxing mentality. Yes, they have some proven features that the other browsers have, but they included because they are proven. They have a version of Firebug, YSlow, Speed Dial, and AwesomeBar (horrible name). Was it copying for copying sake? No, those are features that people want in a browser, so if you make a new browser you have to add them. It is like saying that GM is copying Ford because they included a steering wheel and air conditioning.

The JS is fast, but can we get some html/css rendering benchmarks?

@Brandon: Haha, point very well taken! I guess I shouldn’t jump the gun so quickly

Google is on a quest to dominate the internet even further isn’t it? I hope they step up the developer extensions very soon. I’d to see what they’d come up with. I bet no matter what they can’t beat Firefox anytime soon.

… In Chrome each tab is a separate process, essentially a separate browse. That just means more MEMORY.

Indeed interesting to see if they can get into the browser war, they got a pretty solid advertising scene to stand upon.

I have been looking at it now and I must say it’s sleek and fast, very fast. Although wasn’t able to install it on my Vista x64 (yeah I know) but on my other machine I got it up and running. I have a few problems with the scrolling, it stops working from time to time and a few of my DHTML/Javascript doesn’t work.

Anyway, nice to see something new and fresh, I’m not sure I’m going to us it though.

chrome dom inspector > Firefox plugins

@Jeremy

For Developers – firebug included alreaded
right click on a page and click on “Inspect Element”. It is essentially Firebug with YSlow already plugged in. Thanks Brandon for bringing that to my attention.

WOW.. ultra fast startup… faster than any known browser. I ‘ll switch to it as soon as Google brings the RSS subscriber to standard and supports it toolbar for it’s browser.

I used it for a little bit.

I’m impressed by its speed…but will continue to use Firefox until there’s more little features.

I’ve been expecting this for some time now…There’s been several hints that foreshadowed this. Personally, I’m excited!

It’s cool and everything. But it always comes down to extensibility. Firefox is popular because it is not only extensible, rather it’s easily so. Almost anyone with brief direct for programming can write an extension. If Chrome, entering the already crowded but rather hungry browsers market, better start considering that soon, or it’s doomed, all IMVHO of course

The integrated Task-manager for nerds is a great thing

I think this browser so far is fantastic..for such an early beta. I used it about 3 hours last night and today and so far have loved most everything about it. It is fast for one, looks great and doesn’t clutter your screen.

I have noticed a few flaws ,noticeably in facebook (and reason i’m saying this is because i’m sure it happens in other sites as well). I can go to view people’s pictures and for some reason after 2-3 photo views the link stops working. Weird huh?

Other than that I think it is great and the crossover from firefox/IE to chrome is beautiful. I had everything that was saved in firefox moved over to chrome in a matter of seconds. Great work google, hope to see it get even better.

More benchmarks: http://lifehacker.com/5044668/beta-browser-speed-tests-which-is-fastest

Security researcher Avivi Raff has discovered a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users of Google Chrome browser to serious security attacks. This is the same vulnerability that was originally discovered in Apple’s Safari browser by another well-known researcher – Nitesh Dhanjani – four months ago.

http://www.palluxo.com/2008/09/03/apple-safari-carpet-bomb-flaw-hits-google-chrome-browser/

I wish i could download this for the mac…….

I am really glad that it is not available for Mac yet. To me it’s just more reason for Mac users to feel BAD about their OS.

I dont wanna try it yet,
I love my firefox
but it seems I’ll have to replace it soon!

I am using Chrome now and the only downside is that I don’t have the tools I have with Firefox. Other than that I can see it really changing browser, especially since Google has such a far reach, resource and bright minds.

@Kazi : thank you very much dear. well, can we see the bookmarks and cash or say cookie of this browser?

Great summary – I happened to write quick ‘designers review’ of the UI here, but this definitely hits it from another useful and interesting angle. I’ve been using (and frankly, loving) Chrome for the past few days, and the things that have really popped out at me are the absense of some of my favorite plugins like Firebug (yes, this is included… sorta… in the context menu) and FireFTP – not to mention the lack of some plugins (uploading photos on Facebook isn’t supported). Still, as a browsing experience, there are some supremely exciting and innovative ideas happening in Chrome. Thanks for your take on it – always great to see a new product like this from different perspectives

If you like Chrome’s stripped down Web Inspector, you will love the original, full featured version in the WebKit nightlies. Cheers!

Im also waiting for the mac version. It’s all great with the competition and all. I just hope they all will use the very same webstandards. Hacks and workarounds really is a pain in the !”#. At least hopefully IE6 will be out of the picture soon !!

So far im testing in IE6, IE7, FF pc, FF mac, Safari and Chrome will wihtout a doubt be adden to the list as soon as the alpha is out.

Kim

It’s a nice and uncluttered browser – we all knew Google would release a browser one day, and it’s a welcome addition to the market IMO.

Well, I have down loaded it and started to play around with it. I have to say that I like some things about it. But as a whole, i don’t think it is that great. I like how the tabs play the central role, and i like the the app tab (athough it is kind of like fullscreen mode in IE). I also like how they seperate out each tab as it own working process (this is perhaps my favorite, and somthing i have been asking microsoft to do for years). I think that V8 is a welcome addition to javascript, but not sure that I think that a new javascript engine is the answer to javascript. I am sure that some of you will be pissed of when i say this, but I think it is time to look at something new for client side programming entirely, but I think V8 is diffinatley a step in the right direction.

I don’t like webkit that much, some thing are just kind of wierd with what it renders (given, nothing is as wierd as IE6). The omnibar seems to me like taking a step back, i can still type in the searches into my address bar, and sure the omni bar can search other sites besides your default but hou have to start typing the the url first, then have it come up, then hit tab. To me search bar is easier for this. I have been running tests on 4 PC’s now (Windows XP MCE, Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Home Premium).

It is fast, but so far IE 8 seems to be faster(in actuall page renders), I would love to run a test on a site that is just overloaded with javascript though and see V8 really shine. And compared to Firefox it will be some time before all those plugins are available.

The main issue for me is that it is hard to break from IE. I deal in business apps and enterpises, and Unfortuanatly, there is a heavy use of active x, in this realm (especially with microsoft solutions, OWA, CRM, etc.) not saying I like it, but its there (when I make something from scratch a stay away from axtive x). Also I hate the idea of loading 2 apps on a system to do the samy thing. And since there is no really good way to cepletly remove IE I usually stick with it. And I usually suggest to my clients to do the same thing (please no yelling, Firefox is great, its simply a support desicion, I am 100% garenteed o recieve a larger number of support tickets if there is a second browser on the system). I just hope and pray that IE makes some good changes. IE 7 was a step in the right direction, and IE 8 is looking great. I might suggest everying who is trying this out keep an open mind and try IE 8. At least so you know the IE won’t mangle your sites as much as it did in the past (IE 5 and 6).

Anyway, chrome is a good start with some great key features, and some things that I don’t find so great. But , it will definatly catch the eye of google lovers, not to mention that you have to know that the only reason there making the browser is to push their google apps (app window). I still think it will be some time before it catches up with Firefox and IE.

@john “It is fast, but so far IE 8 seems to be faster(in actuall page renders)”

I hope this some kind of mistake; or Microsoft is paying you to say this. Come to think of it, even if Microsoft paid me to say that, I couldn’t have said that without selling my soul and severely damaging my conscious.

IE8 is faster that chrome….??

Oh my god, I need to sit down and take a break.

Webkit renders up to spec, or is suppsoed to.

well, I knew this would be a debate. i am counting page load times of pages I comonly use. Non – microsoft pages. No Micrososft doesn’t pay me. And I am not the only one getting these results. Look here http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/BLOG01/80903032/1001/NEWS and another study here http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/03/36TC-browsers_1.html.

I have to say, that I plan on running some test tonight on the scriptalicious pages and other pages that have alot of javascript so I can see V8(the only thing that I think will really seperate chrome in the new browsers) at it best. Any suggestions on some site with large amounts of javascript would be great. I can say that chrome seems faster than IE 7. And IE 8 was only barley ahead for me to the point that if i wasn’t trying to measure it I would say it most likley wouldn’t be noticable. Take this for what it is, these apps are only betas, and in the web speed is only truly messured by when a page looks as if it is fully loaded and ready, so this can vary from person to person. For my test I randomlly selected the most visited websites from my clients to test. I didn’t test sites like myspace or youtube or flickr. That would actually be interesting and maybe i will do that over the weekend.

Truthfully there really aren’t a whole lot of things google is bringing to the table here that isn’t in IE 8 (beta 2, which was released a week prior to chrome) already, accept major kudos for V8, and the ability to pull tabs out to there own window and recombine them.

All in all, i said chrome was a good start, especially for a first beta release. People who like Google and appreciate the less is more stance will love it ( I actually love this part of it). But i think it will just take time to come full circle as a replacement Firefox and IE. Feature wise i think it is above firefox, but you got to love some of those firefox add-ons.

Anyway, run your own tests. if you think Chrome faster, ok, I cant argue as there is no super scientific way to actually measure the load time of every browser with real world examples. Also my test are on clean virtual systems, new os image and instal of browser, so that plays into it as well.

http://lifehacker.com/5044668/beta-browser-speed-tests-which-is-fastest

When it comes to speed, there is no contest between IE8 B2 and chrome. Between FF3.1b and Chrome, the honors are even.

I have been an active reader of IE8 blog and tested the beta2 even before the public release (if you follow IE8 blog, there was a private beta release even before the public release). To say that IE8 beta2 is “faster”, or even in any sense of imagination, “better”; is a gross over statement and a blatant lie.

IE8 beta2 just sucks so bad, it’s not even funny.

To say that Google aren’t “a whole lot of things Google is bringing to the table here that isn’t in IE 8 (beta 2, which was released a week prior to chrome) already” – only proves the point that you really don’t know what your are talking about. And probably didn’t even use Chrome for more that 5 minutes (if at all).

Every single element of the browser (except for the webkit) is built from scratch – are new ideas – and haven’t been used by other browser before the release of chrome.

Please don’t bother testing/reviewing it – let the pros do it, because not only that you don’t know what you are talking about – you will most likely misinform others. You are better off not using it at all.

Sorry, but i still beg to differ. Yes i have seen the lifehacker post. I haven’t run thos test but I would hardly say they are real world. But I wont claim to dispute them except to say on brand new installs the numbers aren’t as far apart as it is in his post but yes, I did rank them in about the same order. Also a went to scriptalicious, jquery, and moo tools sites, and I have to say that here I give the edge to chrome. But to say IE 8 sucks i would have to say that you are simply not being totaly honest.

I do read the IE8 blogs, I also have used IE 8 since prior to the first public beta. Which was bad. But beta 2 is out now and is what I am testing. And I don’t actually think there are that many new ideas from chrome even though they might be building it from scratch. IE 8 went back to the drawing board and started from scratch on a lot of things.

But I will just now focus on what I like about chrome(that it either does better then the others or the other don’t do) as I was not trying to create an argument, just trying to state that there are reasons the browser has a way to go before people completely replace there current browsers.

I am using chrome right now actually and have been using it and nothing else on my home pc since the beta was announced. So here are my likes.

1. It does tabs better – I like that the tabs take center stage can be pulled of into there own window an recombined.
2. V8 rocks – The more I read about it the more I like it. I have wanted a replacement to javascript on the client side for a while know, V8 isn’t a replacement but it satifies almost all the reasons why I would have liked to see a replacement. I never though javascript would ever be that fast (refering to the google optimized V8 test). This will be awesome.
3. this kind of goes with the first point. But I am a less is more guy and love the interface it truly makes a website feel more like an application. And I like how downloads are handled. I want to see how they add more features without cluttering the user interface. (for example, A truer favorites manager, RSS reader, I would like to see web slices supported (right now an IE8 thing, but i would love to see all browser start to support these things).
4. Open Source – I like that Google did this. but they always do. I wish Microsoft did this, my vote was for it when they asked the community since they are trying to offer more and more open source. But in the end I understand why they decided to keep it closed. They was just so much to consider since they have to make it work with a lot of legacy stuff.

There there is my list of the pluses that I see in chrome. They aren’t all new ideas but they did make these better.

Still using FF3 because firebug for my coding and for my other ff extensions.

I’m just using chrome on google websites. and gmail is always open on my chrome, at least that way its consuming less memory and cpu process.

Go Google!

Anybody here already know the easter egg on it
type about:internets on address bar and see for yourself

I think it’s great that shows up one more competitor in this market – greater competition – better result for us
Of course I`m not sure Google Chrome could ever be better agains FireFox and it’s great collection of addons, which are irreplaceable! Thanks for article! I`m checking Chrome right now too!

When Chrome supports a wealth of developer-aimed extensions like Firefox, I’ll consider using it all the time.

It’s funny, because I started using it to write a blog post on my own website, and I wasn’t that keen. After about an hour, I really liked the feel of it as a user, and have continued to use it at home.

At work, I’m still using firefox on a daily basis, because of extensions like Firebug and Web Developer toolbar.

Chrome’s got a lot of nice features, and while there are some issues, it is the first beta version, and its standards support is good. It isn’t going to kill off IE, let’s be honest, but if it opens people’s eyes, then that can only be a good thing.

IE is getting better, too, let’s not forget that.

I really enjoy what Google has done with this browser. And think it’s a good start, but I can’t see using it as my default browser. This is mainly due to the fact that I’ve been getting a few errors that make the browser almost unusable with some sites, usually where Flash is concerned. While that may be an isolated incident, it somewhat lessens my enthusiasm for Chrome.

I totaly agree, this is an amazing start. What they basically were able to do were take some of the best features from all the other browsers and wrap them up in single browser.

I really cant say that it can ever hope to replace IE in an enterprise/business enviroment. But I am looking forward to using it at home. The user interface is great, and I would love for IE to learn some things here (mainly making the tab they central part, not a scondary aspect), becuase i think the UI fits the enterprise enviroment better as it does somhow accomplish making a website feel more like an application. If this was done i would even be ok with IE keeping the other buttons (I have customized my IE to only have 3 more buttons) and seperate search box as I actually still prefer this.

As far as speed goes, I will say this. I ran test all night last night from my actual pc and not the test enviroments(were everything was a new install) I didn’t have IE8 on that box. but it kicks the living daylight out of IE7. Part of this might be all the plugins and addons loaded in IE7, but I think chrome with all these plugins would still be faster.

If some plugins start being made, to add some needed functionality, I will be happy to replace firefox with it.

I tried to used this browser and wow looks nice and loads faster but I still used FF3 because of its add ons. FF still the best browser in town for web developers and designers.

It is still far behind ff3. ff3 has firebug and webdeveloper which is default for web developers. Spelling check is a killer functionality. Some javascript functions are implemented strangely. Chrome has problems in rending many pages, including iGoogle page… But it is sure better then M$’s product.

btw: If you are seeking something capable of rending page quickly and you are using windows, try Safari win edition. It’s incredibly fast! Also google’s browser is not as fast as it is advertised. See
http://lifehacker.com/5044668/beta-browser-speed-tests-which-is-fastest
-mingz

Chrome SUCKS! In the terms and conditions, if you publish anything onto the net, blog, youtube, facebook etc… they can use it how ever they want, with out paying you! I know it’s really fast, but totally not worth it.

Perfect business model. Capture enough users, push paid ads to the top of the autofill and drive the money to the bank. With greater type in traffic trending upwards, this could be seen as a grab for more cash, that has very little benefit for average small businesses trying to create a web presence.

For example; type in http://www.news.com into firefox and chrome. Chrome presents me with a choice of news.cnet.com printed in green….. (the number one searched term if you were to type in news.com into the search field)

Nothing wrong with this at all – they own the search information, they own the advertising network and they own how you are presented with information (if you use chrome). The pitfall in my opinion is not so much the development tool aspects, but how you help your clients compete. Unless you are number 1 or 2, you will be forced to spend more on advertising in order to be “found.”

As a small business owner, who is also paying the salaries of “web development activities” I fail to see how Chrome is a net benefit to the general internet community. On the other hand, I’ll top up my Google share portfolio………

The concept isn’t bad and I like the idea of a new browser but… everyone knows what Google does with your personal information. With downloading Chrome you aggree with sharing your information with Google and God knows, what they’ll do with it.
I don’t want anyone to be able to know WHERE I’m surfing, WHAT I’m surfing for and WHY. That’s why I deleted Chrome after giving it a try. For me the best browser is firefox.

Greetings,
LBrother

chrome is a sweet browser I really like it. Just need to fix up little details.

I think we all know what the “incognito mode” is for. Eh, eh?

Some months passed now since its launch and it hasn t become as popular as much as I thought it would become

The only major flaw in google chrome for me is; there is no SEND LINK. If I want to e-mail a page i’m reading. Like a G-Mail send button PLease. I am probably missing something here because none of the other comments addressed this. Otherwise the lightening speed of chrome is such a major positive over [take forever boot up firefox] that, i’m almost ready to make chrome my default browser. I thought I could not live without READ IT LATER and MOUSE GESTURES but chrome comes close. Is anybody else concerned about the supposed major security weakness with CARPET BOMBING for Chrome: Avivi Raff security resercher?

I still haven’t tried chrome yet must do that soon.