y addons make life and surfing so confortable, so hard to live again without them. I tried chrome and it was fun and new and google is sexy but without adblock, the net looks sooo annoying like 2 years ago, no way i'm doing that to myself.

Yeesh, a browser without ad/content blocking? It's 2008 guys, not 1998.

I love Chrome. I've been using it as my main browser ever since it came out - I want a browser damnit, who needs all the pointless fluff IE, Firefox and Opera offer.

A browser needs to display webpages. Thats's it.

I used Chrome almost exclusively for a month. It has, without a doubt, the cleanest interface for a web browser that I've seen (at least since the days when I could customize the Mozilla suite to my liking), and the ability to run websites as an "application" with an even tidier interface is a novel approach.

I ended up switching back to Opera for the time being because Chrome had a nasty problem of freezing up for a few seconds when it was loading flash apps. Not really noticable until you have a lot of Youtube tabs open, then the browser would slow to a crawl. Opera also has the benefit of storing my information on a remote server, which is nice because I have access to the same bookmarks and speed dial here at the university as I have at my apartment.

Still, kudos to the Google team. For awhile I wondered if this was going to be another "perpetual beta" projects that never saw completion. Hopefully by now the Flash problem has been fixed, since Youtube is a huge asset of Google. More choice makes all of the browsers better in the long run.

I really like the concept of Chrome, and it's always nice to have another open-source / another competitive browser in the browser "market".

I definitely see some potential benefits in its technology. I've also heard a lot of people discussing it; they seem to like it. I've been waiting to try it myself as well (for day-to-day browsing) because Chrome certainly looks very promising.

The only problem is that I can't actually install it, run it, or use it on my (Debian) computer.

It is very nice of Google to bring out their first release, but I really hoped (kind of expected) that they would have released some sort of (beta?) non-windows version by now as well.

Since i'm using Debian I feel a little bit "left in the cold". Wouldn't it be nice to have Chrome functioning on non-Microsoft Desktops as well?

Non-windows users have yet to receive their first beta builds, and those would be.. just beta releases :/ .

It STILL is plagued by the feel of being a throwback to 1997 so far as the UI is concerned, making it the same 'also ran' that Safari for windows is.

That it does NOT use the native OS widgets makes it feel out of place, that bookmark handling STILL makes IE4 look robust put's it completely out of the league of Firefox, much less the feature rich Opera, it doesn't obey the system metric so it's useless for 'large font' users (problem with webkit AND gecko, they seem to think all computers are 96dpi screens)...

Their 'most visited' is still a piss poor version of Opera's speed dial since they don't seem to have given the user any control over what's shown there...

Really wierd is the UI in this release feels sluggish compared to the last one - I try to use the 'other bookmarks' dropdown, I can actually see them being drawn - a behavior I'm definately NOT used to seeing on a Q6600 with Ge8800GTS video and 4 gigs of RAM.

I end up with a bunch of "How do you..." questions, and the answer is usually "You don't"

Color me unimpressed.

A browser needs to display webpages. Thats's it.

I NEVER surf internet while logged in gmail/google account. never use google desktop, never make any google calendar appts, never read any books, reader in google, never put any mobile phone number in google acct, never use google on phone, They ARE evil collecting all data(for improving customer experience???)