Finally got some time to post this. I’ve been using Chrome for about two weeks, so here are my observations (subjective, yes).

First of all, it is very fast. It loads faster, pages load faster (when burdened with lots of JS), things simply work faster. Great, but there are glitches and plenty of them:

- when bookmarks bar is disabled I can’t access my own bookmarks any other way except to re-enable the bar again
- first exploit? (via Dave Naylor’s site)
- erratic behavior especially when quickly closing a few tabs; page goes blank, even though previously loaded the content at the URL given in the address bar; once clicked on the address bar, page loads again
- opening multiple tabs can cause it to freeze temporarily (5 tabs seem to do it for me)
- appears to be faster, but mostly on applications that are JS intensive; not that much difference on “normal” pages
- browser tab switching hangs for a while current tab is still loading (similar to FF behavior)
- mouse scrolling and click-scrolling doesn’t work occasionally, while page is loading (cause probably similar to tab switching behavior)

Then there are page layout rendering differences (mostly regarding CSS), like here (on one of the sites I frequently visit):

These guys found a rendering difference in WordPress 2.6.

Security issues are unavoidable, and Chrome is not immune to them it seems.

Here are a couple of “official” resources, in case you didn’t catch all the introductory info about the new browser initially:

Google Chrome Forum
Google Chrome Developers
Google Chrome Features

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