So far I like it as an alternative to IE, but it’s still not as useful to me as FF. At least, not yet. I’ve been testing it today and there were a number of sites it wasn’t playing nice with. Specifically, the javascript wasn’t working, so I couldn’t select some of the items in a lookup I was trying to run in one of my web apps for work.
I do like the visual layout of the tabs above the bar. I think I’ll give it a little more time and check back.
It truncated the contents of folders imported as bookmarks from firefox and has no way to bulk delete the entire bookmark folder to start again. Only manual delete folder by folder. Ridiculous on both fronts. Uninstalled.
Do tell. It imported my bookmark list of about 500 bookmarks just fine. Took a long time to do it, though.
It’s got issues, but finding them is part of the beta process. If they’re not found and reported, then they can’t be fixed.
I installed it night-before-last and the first impression was very good. I’m a die-hard Opera user, but I am liking Chrome.
I didn’t read the propaganda until just now - it makes a compelling pitch, even beyond the quick-and-prettiness that immediately meets the eye.
I’ll keep using it, and hope that it has some of the features of Opera that I can’t live without, hidden away somewhere behind that inoffensive UI.
Installed - an I’m uninstalling it immediately after submitting this post. Like tagos, I didn’t get a proper import of my bookmarks. I’m not sure where it got the list it imported, because some of them it did import haven’t been in my IE favorites for quite some time. And many that are in the IE list, (like straightdope.com) didn’t come across. The damn things aren’t even in alphabetical order anymore - and I can’t figure out a way to make them so, short of manually dragging them where they should be.
And I, too, very much dislike the installation directory. Using roaming profiles here at work, means everything under your username is carried to any machine where you logon. I’m not sure a program installation should be portable like that.
Bye bye Chrome.
It hasn’t hung: you just have to leave it for some time. I came back to it after 15 minutes or so. Why it takes so long I do not know.
Man, that’s hung for all intents and purposes.
I don’t remember it taking more than 5 seconds when I imported Firefox bookmarks from the Chrome menu.
Tried it, but I’m not impressed:[ul]
[li]The delay when changing tabs seems to be a direct consequence of the “each tab as its own process”-thing, so that might not be fixable.[/li][li]It didn’t find my firefox installation to import bookmarks and there seems to be no way to manually tell it where to look.[/li][li]It installs an update utility that loads at startup and runs all the time, evern if the browser is closed, and looksfor updates rather frequently.[/li][li]The update utility didn’t go away when I uninstalled Chrome, I had to manually stop the process and delete the app. :mad:[/li][/ul]
Oh, and yay for free posting!
I’m tempted to blame Vista. 
I installed it last night so that I could play around with it and see what Google’s interpretation of a web browser would be like.
It was very fast on my machine running under Win XP. Unfortunately it would not load some of my favorite websites properly. So it is back to Firefox.
I will check back in a few revisions.