[Fenrir]

http://www.google.com/chrome

It's pretty basic, but boy, it's fast.

PS: Only the Windows version is out for now. Other OS versions to come out whenever.

[Ghostavo]

It's open source opera. Basically every feature they describe is in opera.

[karajorma]

Well Opera weren't doing it so **** them.

[Mars]

Using chrome right now. It is pretty spartan, but it really is very fast.

I hate Opera's UI, frankly but I'm liking Chrome so far.

[karajorma]

Given the fact that everything else Google makes reports back to the mothership have Google actually said that their browser doesn't send details of your surfing habits back to them?

[Mars]

Firefox already does that IIRC

[WMCoolmon]

Firefox already does that IIRC

Source?

[Flaser]

I'm pretty excited about Chrome, and no I actually don't give a damn as to which browser is the best: I'm a conservative user, I like my UI and features and you'll pry them from my cold dead hands...

...but I like to upgrade as long as I don't have to relearn everything just for the sake of reinventing the wheel.

But in this case, what really got me interested is under the hood: the V8 virtual machine to run JS; the Sandboxing of tabs etc. etc.

I will still use firefox - but eagerly await when these technologies come to my platform...or hell, I could try out Chrome as well. If the UI grows on me I will switch (but God help them if I can't import my 500 bookmarks!)

[Colonol Dekker]

I'm trying it out as it goes, it's pretty minimalist, but when you learn the few keyboard shortcuts to access favourites etc. I kinda like it.

(Psst, ps you can also browse cached pages from google if a page fails, it's like googles backing up the whole internet..)

[Sandwich]

I really, really like it. I've been collecting a small armada of web apps using Mozilla Prism (which was nice), but this basically has the same feature built-in, and much faster, too.

Additionally, I have 2 main Firefox profiles I use - one (Personal) with personal bookmarks and fun extensions, and another (Work) with clientelle bookmarks and web dev extensions. Both those profiles load relatively slowly. My default web browser, when a URL shortut is opened, has been another Firefox profile, this one without hardly any extensions, and with no history tracking, cookie saving, etc - a guest browser, if you will. It's been fine for that purpose, but Google Chrome has just replaced it as my computer's default browser.

Only major nitpick I have so far is that GridMove - a mandatory app for anyone with a large monitor - doesn't seem to pick up on Chrome being a window. :-/

[Colonol Dekker]

Gridmove?
I got no clue how big my screen is but i'd guess 22+ inches and i don't have trouble

[Sandwich]

If you ever wanted to be able to easily position two or more windows side-by-side, so you can work on them simultaneously, check GridMove out.

[Fury]

I've been using Chrome for an hour and so far I am very impressed. I think Chrome will be my default browser from now on.

Chrome is fast as hell. It isn't bloated and memory management with lots of tabs open seems to surpass Firefox 3, not to mention each tab is its own process. Sucky website won't bring down the whole browser, only the tab. Chrome's new javascript engine is running circles around Firefox 3, it's that fast.

Chrome really brings back memories from the pre-1.0 Firefox days. Back then Firefox was no-frills basic, lean and fast browser. Unlike today. I don't use Firefox extensions anyway so I don't have any trouble switching to Chrome. Even though this is the first public beta of Chrome, so far everything seems to work and I'm not really missing any features. Although especially those who are used to using Firefox extensions will find Chrome's features lacking.

I like the fact that Chrome uses WebKit and not Mozilla's Gecko. Safari, Konqueror and soon Epiphany uses WebKit too. Chrome should finally give an incentive for those bloody windows-only website designers to make their website better standards compliant, instead of "IE-compatible" and more or less Gecko compatible since Firefox has a large market share these days. Not even Safari could accomplish that with its Windows-port. Well, IE8 should also help in that regard anyway.

[Mars]

If it uses the same rendering engine as Konq, will someone please explain to me why Gmail is so buggy in Konq and not Chrome? 

[Fury]

My guess would be that Google tweaked the engine to work perfectly with their web applications, obviously. I don't think it will take long for those changes to merge into upstream WebKit and into browsers that use the engine. Another possibility is that those differences in rendering is caused by Chrome's V8 javascript engine, so far it is only used in Chrome.

[Scooby_Doo]

It is fast 
But, I've found the UI is way too minimalist and the zoomer half works (only on text)

[Ghostavo]

People who posted a reply using Chrome, Google now owns your post!

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.

11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.

[Fury]

In practice those license agreement statements are used to collect statistics and other data and then display the collected data under Google's trademarks and copyrights. Should Google somehow gain interest in acquiring rights to any content sent through Chrome, it wouldn't hold in courts. While wording is different, you'll find similar statements in many other eulas.

[Ghostavo]

Read the link and then tell that with a straight face.

Example from the link I posted

There are some people who have claimed that this is standard legal jargon for every piece of software. Not only is that simply not true, no clause even close to that is in the Firefox terms of service.

Last time when Microsoft tried to do this with MSN, everyone on the net pretty much revolted, but since it's Google the internet's pretty child, everyone is ok with it.

[Fury]

Thanks to the revolting ones such eulas will get corrected sooner or later. Meanwhile I'll be enjoying perfectly fine browser. I'm not paranoid enough to get myself worried over such trivialities in eulas.