09.02.08
The Chrome Experience
Chrome is fast, not so sexy (but apparently this was a strategic move from Google, as people are more interested in functionality than looks) however the last hour or so of tweets might prove them wrong!
For such “Web 2.0″ logo, they went for a very 1999 looking browser. However, perhaps they are trying to focus more attention on the actual websites than the browser?
They certainly try to show their sense of humour, IMO, by asking on install whether or not you would like to have Google as your primary / preferred search engine? Irony being of course that in IE the default engine is Live…
Also just realised, this version and purely by the nature of this broswer, there is no Google Toolbar. 
Omnibox was meant to combine the ‘duplicate search boxes’ (address and search) - but in the process we lost track of the other features of Google Toolbar too.
So no PageRank tool, now highlight bar to check keyword density, no spell checker or any of the other nifty little things Google Toolbar can do. And also, if you’re browsing blogs, no way of seeing, and quickly adding / subscribing to their RSS feeds directly from the browser like FF currently allows.
*Update: - When you choose your language in the user interface, Google Chrome downloads a spellcheck dictionary. * Okay so spell checker does work 
It IS a Beta after all…And it is open source…so let’s start creating some extentions, and Google, get that Toolbar ready to roll for Chrome, please
I do like the way it feels more like an application than a browser though.
In the opening words of tonight’s Chrome webcast announcement: Google has evovled from a search engine to : search, ads and apps.
How do you like Chrome?