I can't remember how quickly I've ever rescinded a ringing endorsement for a product, but let me attempt to break that record:
1) Turns out Chrome is dog slow on my wireless connection at home, while IE and FireFox run circles around it. What gives?
2) I finally got around to reading the "comic" PR piece. I don't care how great the product is -- you can double your douche-bag points for that piece of tripe. Ugh.
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I can't remember the last time a product release actually made me say "wow" out loud.
Wow.
I am generally one of the first in line to slander new products from G that don't live up to their potential (i.e. all of them except Maps and Mail) but my first impressions of Google's new "Chrome" browser is that they've completely captured the essence of what made their search engine so successful: Simple, fast, effortless.
The page load times compared to IE and Firefox on my XP machine are so wildly different, I'm not sure I'll ever go back to using either of these other browsers except to retrieve bookmarks or to test Topix site changes. And finally, a browser that really capitalizes on the user-behavior pattern of typing random search strings in the URL bar? That's just common sense.
Simply put, this is a change that I would recommend to my mother. And I don't think that's happened since I told her to dump Y! search in favor of G.
Another nail in the MSFT coffin.