Thanks for the tip!

RobertDM,

Yes, let’s hope it stays good!

skip,

I think Google Chrome aim to be as lean as possible, but definitely, some of those menu options are important.

icaaq,

Yes, the RSS-thing gets me as well. Just a beta, right?
Thanks for the link!

patrick,

Sounds like some decent demands.

Götz,

Very cool, I didn’t see that! It seems pretty competent in that aspect too, then.

Bookmarking and such will probably come. I can imagine that, in the future, they will implement some sort of integration features, like Flock, but not just as massive.

iwebie,

Yes, it’ll be interesting to see about plugins.

Read more below

http://www.iwebie.com/googles-chrome-browser-the-iefirefox-killer

Chrome already includes a first try of a Firebug- or Dragonfly-like developer tool, so there’s perhaps no need for many other webdeveloper plugins.

To take a look at the tool just mark any text on a page, right click and then choose the last point in the menu (unfortunately I got the German version so I don’t know, how they named that in the English one, maybe “inspect element” or something like that).
That doesn’t look to bad, but I didn’t play around with it a lot either.

I wondered that there is something like local bookmarks - they may should integrate the possbility to use some online bookmarking services instead, that would match the bookmarking behaviour of today’s web users better in my opinion.

I agree, this browser could be an interesting alternative, especially for people using different Google web applications frequently, but at the moment it can’t yet compete with Opera.
Well, we’ll see where Chrome development will go over time …

Best wishes from Germany,
Götz

John Resig also twittered about Chrome on mac http://twitter.com/jeresig/statuses/907291687

But you will get access only to 474KB online crappy installer.

Download complete offline installer from http://rapidshare.com/files/142129854/chrome_installer.exe

Chris,

You’re probably right, but one can always hope for a change in the long run.

Peter Sunna,

Good point! The Google beta state fixation has to stop for this to be taken serious.

Harmen,

Yes, definitely. However, Firefox is dependent on money from Google for when the search field is being used in the web browser, so it’s not like they can cut their biggest income.

Anders Ytterström,

Yeah, Firebug for Google Chrome would be a dream!

RobertDM,

It’s a valid concern, no doubt. But as pointed out by Andreas above and in other places, Google Chrome being open source, some smart developers would soon alert the world about it if it were so.

Bjarne,

There’s a dropdown in the Google Chrome page where you can choose the desired language, I made the same mistake first.

Seems to be some problems with RSS and popup blocking, though. Also, the installation seems to think I want to install a Swedish version, and it’s also insisting on giving me Google reader in Swedish, when I prefer English. A bit annoying.

I must say there are some nice UI improvements as well, which increase the pressure on the competition. Especially Microsoft are going to have a hard time. They’re still fixing their lack of standards support, but all others are really working on a next generation of browsers.

In any way the users are going to benefit.

I’ve also though about how much information Google will actually have if they become the dominant browser, but since the whole thing’s open source I’m not so sure they will attempt to put any “spy”-code in there…

I will try it out, as soon as it is available for mac and linux. If it’s really good, fast and light weight, It will become my choice when I’m not working - unless firebug is beaten to death by similar functionality in Chrome.

Hopefully this will reduce the number of IE-users even further as well.