Google chrome – First impressions

Pros

1. Love the tabs and the effective use of screen real-estate
2. Startup performance is phenomenal 

Cons

1. Bootstrapper installation makes for an unpleasant experience in the future reinstalls.
2. As a developer I find it annoying that XML content types are not rendered within the browser window. Instead of a nice formatted view of your XML, you are presented with a blank page 🙁
3. Lack of plugin support
4. The fine print ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10030522-56.html )
   1. Google reserves the right to automatically update and install Chrome. (NOT too bad)
   2. Although you retain any copyrights to content you own and use in the browser, Google says it has a right to display some of your content, in conjunction with promoting its services.
   3. More Ads !!!

User Agent

" Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13 " 

Acid2 Browser Test

www.webstandards.org/action/acid2

As expected the Acid2 test was passed, but I did find a funny bug when resizing the window on the test page. 🙁

Acid3 Browser Test

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Not a bad score for a BETA product…