Well...  From a minimalistic, stripped-down perspective it's really nice.  However the lack of extensions and add-ons is a HUGE shortcoming.  Yes, for the novice user that's not that big a loss, but most of us Linux users are power users, no?

The bookmark system is also primitive as well.  Firefox3's is really slick (use the tags, Luke). Firefox3's awesome bar is pretty comparable to chrome's.

And this site seems to imply that chrome should be running far more resource-dependant than the other browsers out there - I have been running it since it's release yesterday, and I am very impressed.  It outperforms IE7 in all aspects...and IE7 outperforms firefox 3 in all aspects (I was shocked too when I realized it).  Of course, this is all on my computer at work, because I run only linux at home ;)

You're kidding me, right?  When you say IE7 "outperforms", could you be more specific?  Have you looked at your memory utilization?  Open up more than one tab, please.

Don't get me wrong, Chrome's neat.  I can see why Google is doing this, and it will up the ante in the browser wars.  That's good.  From a UI perspective it's not revolutionary. The backend design is really nice, and ought to lead to innovation on the Mozilla and Microsoft side.  The fact that they're using WebKit is interesting as well.

However it's obviously still beta, and it's obviously still not complete.  I'm interested in seeing where they go with it, but I hardly think it's worth getting into a fanboy love-fest about it yet.

Jeffrey.

P.S.  I'm using Chrome to type this.