I got to test drive Google Chrome (2.0 Beta) for the first time this evening.
My opinion?
Dillo plus tabs and the ability to decode CSS and Javascript. In other words, a toy.
When you’re through toying around and decide actually to be productive with a browser, you’ll restart Firefox.
For a browser that Chrome fanboys say is so minimalist and so unlike that supposedly bloated Firefox, the default install sure takes up a big footprint on your hard drive (57.1 MiB), which is almost twice as much space as the “bloated” Firefox uses (30 MiB). If Chrome is supposed to be un-bloated, then it should be smaller than 30 MiB, in fact significantly smaller than 30 MiB. Even if you delete the installer files (chrome.7z is a biggie), you’re still only down to 27.7 MiB.
And get it through your heads, Chrome fanboys. Firefox was never a minimalist browser and never meant to be a minimalist browser. It is, always has been and probably always will be a utilitarian browser, i.e. the best set of default options and features for most people. See #11.
UPDATE 4/5: Guess what, Chrome fanboys. Chrome’s EULA allows Larry and Sergey to filter URLs.
