The Google Chrome download link is live.

A few miscellanea you may have missed:<p>* JavaScript is lightning fast. 3x faster than FireFox 3 on the Dromaeo test suite.<p>* JavaScript compatibility isn't 100%. Fails in RaphaelJS, apparently Facebook and probably more. I'm unsure why.<p>* The download bar is interesting and different. Opens a bar at the bottom, defaults to Downloads in My Documents. Can drag elsewhere when done.<p>* It includes sleek a Firebug-esque tag inspector. Right click and inspect element.<p>* Scrolling up doesn't work on my trackpad. Middle clicking and scrolling up/down doesn't work. I hope this is fixed soon<p>* The drop-down search bar is neat. Press Ctrl+F to open it. It doesn't work in textareas.<p>* You can hide the bookmarks bar via Ctrl+B.<p>* You can drag tabs in and out of the window to form new windows. There's also a lovely animation when you move tabs around.<p>* There's a task manager for Chrome alone - right click on the main bar and click task manager. 'Stats for nerds' for more info which takes you to about:memory - also shows you memory usage for IE and Opera.<p>* You can add keywords in the search bar by going to Options, Manage and changing the default keyword.<p>* Passes Acid2 test. On Acid3, gets a respectable 78/100 on the JS tests, but has a few rendering bugs and linktest failed. Both tests are currently getting hammered - I'm not sure whether this changes the result for the latter.<p>* You can resize textareas using the bottom-right hand corner<p>* It includes a spell checker. You can't seem to add new words to it though.<p>* It supports other search engines other than Google out of the box. It asked me what default to use on startup. It imported my info from FireFox.<p>* On clicking a link it only changes the status bar to indicate you've done so - other browsers make it more obvious.<p>* Source is available at <a href="http://dev.chromium.org/" rel="nofollow">http://dev.chromium.org/</a> - seems to be largely BSD licensed. I haven't downloaded it as it's almost 500mb.

Holy shit this browser is fast.<p>Wow.

*Google Chrome for Linux is in development and a team of engineers is working hard to bring it to you as soon as possible.<p>It does not work on Linux. :(

Haha, incognito mode.<p>&#62; For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays,<p>Riiiiight

Pretty swell, but I won't ditch Firefox just yet...I can't do without Firebug, so I'll have at least one FF window, at least during working hours.<p>(This comment posted via Chrome)

Check out the "Google Chrome Terms of Service": anything you post or transmit with Chrome can be used by Google in any way it wants, for all time. They can display your writings in public, modify it, or both.<p>This applies to everything you transmit using Chrome, no matter how private it may seem, no matter if it's encrypted, no matter if you're sending it to friends, family, lovers, business partners, employers, financial services planners...<p>What was that slogan? "Don't be evil"?<p>"11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.<p>"11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services."

How hard would it be for FF add-ons to be ported onto Chrome? Is Google going to offer add-ons?

Some JS tests:<p><a href="http://www.celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed2007.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed2007.php</a> <a href="http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/speed_test/index4.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/speed_test/index4.html</a><p>Needless to say, it's fast...

Who want's to bet this browser will catch up to and get more popular than firefox? It's sleeker, looks smaller, yet does the same stuff.

The "create application shortcut" on desktop thing is truly revolutionary and could change the way people view web apps.

There is a download link right on the Google homepage now.<p><a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/</a>

Worst implementation of bookmarks yet. I have over 5k of them and managing them in Chrome will be a futile process. Clicking the "Open all Bookmarks in New window" button also crashes the browser when you have that many.<p>It is nice and fast though.

I think Google might have Mozilla beat on intuitiveness of the UI.

No Mac version. :(

Coool. Do you know if it is possible for Chrome to remember the font magnification for visited websites? In FF, I usually enlarge website font, and FF remembers my choice. Chrome doesn't do this automatically.

I need adblocker plus!!

Wow. It comes with a javascript/dom debugger ... it seems roughly on par with firebug.<p>And the task manager is amazing, exactly what I've been wanting.<p>(all the good stuff is under the Page menu, then the developer submenu. Took me a while to find).

It doesn't appear to support proxies during the install process.

I love that you can drag browser tabs from one window to the other. That's just crazy cool.

Any idea why it installs itself in "C:\Documents and Settings\User Account Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"?

Guys its rock solid and AWESOME. I just love it. Rock and roll time. I am running john resigs dromaeo on it. Lets hope for the best. Cheers!

Looks like they're making an offensive move towards Silverlight. The Silverlight plug-in loads but the way in which Silverlight loads content from the web looks like it is broken. Anyone else get past the "Loading showcase" label here: <a href="http://silverlight.net/showcase/" rel="nofollow">http://silverlight.net/showcase/</a>

I wondered how it would handle an infinite loop of javascript alerts, so I wrote a little script to test it:<p><a href="http://www.paulbutler.org/projects/chrome/test.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulbutler.org/projects/chrome/test.html</a><p>It passed! I'd be curious to know how Opera and Safari do on the test. I have a hunch Opera might pass it.

I'm really diggin' this browser. My favorite feature has to be the 'Incognito Window'.

The browser is amazingly fast, clean, well-designed (great Omnibox) but the comic-book-style explanation... really? That little digitomb took away whatever load-time I would have saved the rest of the week.

The interface is very sleek.Speed is awesome. But font rendering is really bad.And where is the Tools,View menus? Wont be my primary browser for XP.

I never thought I'd say "hurray" to yet-another-web-browser, but Google hit it out of the park with this one. Hurray!

Does not work at all on my computer (Vista). It starts up OK, but I get a window saying "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click OK to terminate the application." whenever I try to load anything.<p><a href="http://screencast.com/t/pY0dgFVCLr8" rel="nofollow">http://screencast.com/t/pY0dgFVCLr8</a>

Is it just me, or does spawning a new process per tab - which makes perfect sense when the tab contains an actual web-app - seem like overkill if it's only to read a document?<p>That said, if Chrome provided some equivalent of Live Bookmarks, I'd reconcile myself to the profligate process spwaning.

Some small pieces...<p>1. The plugin interface to adobe doesn't seem like it's quite there just yet. I had some significant slowdowns with trying to get to other tabs and with responsiveness.<p>2. There were a few cases where new tabs didn't seem to load in the background... has anyone else encoutnered this?

One thing I'd like to see is to be able to embed some of the Google Gadgets from iGoogle into the new tab screen, down the bottom would be nice.<p>Would useful to be able to keep up with email/rss/news incrementally while I'm doing normal browsing, rather than having to go look for it.

Anyone know which icon is Chrome using when it makes app shortcuts? For my site it used favicon but it definitely used a bigger icon. I've looked at Gmail's favicon.ico file but it's not a multirez one.. it's just a plain little 16x16 icon...

* Very clean.<p>* Speed I didn't notice any difference yet.<p>* I miss the Firefox upper right corner search bar.<p>* Not crashing the whole browser when one tab crashes is obviously very good(why hasn't this been solved before? has been a problem for so long and a very obvious one too)

Nice. The simplicity is OK, I never use the menu bar anyway. Still, I love my FireBug, the EULA sucks and there's no noticeable speed difference with Firefox on my machine, honestly. Back to Firefox.

Nice. The simplicity is OK, I never use the menu bar anyway. Still, I love my FireBug, the EULA sucks and there's noticeable difference with Firefox on my machine, honestly. Back to Firefox.

I wonder how they will expose functionality to extension developers and if that will even be possible.<p>I didn't stick to Opera nor Safari after Firefox due to lack of support for some plugins I use and wrote.

This is pretty close to extraordinary. This thing is pitch-perfect. It's like the best parts of Firefox and Safari and Opera merged. I can't wait for this to come out for the Mac, now.

Hm, Chrome doesn't seem to fill the _charset_ hidden input. Interesting, whether it's just that the feature is not yet implemented, or they don't consider it to be useful/good.

The combined search/address bar is great -- the best ideas are often so obvious in hindsight (likewise for gmail's email organization)<p>EDIT: and the "new tab" button is in exactly the right spot

I really liked it until I got blue screen of death. And of all sites it was one of the official Google blogs.<p>I couldn't reproduce the crash, but now, there is this lingering feeling ...

Fast, clean interface but no way to send a link, no highlighting of search terms, redundant delete icon on every tab instead of one on the side for the tab in focus.

Interesting information can be found at the about: page.<p>Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

I'd like the ability to tag bookmarked pages. Right now the bookmark tool is too limited to be useful. I'll continue to have to use del.icio.us

Looks like it doesn't run in Wine, guess I won't get to try it out until I go back to work tomorrow.

try this: ctrl-f, enter something (say, firebug) and then take a look at the scrollbar. Nice.

please, allow extensibility in this, like firefox, and I am ready to say goodbye to Firefox!

Boy, does it rock :)<p>I'm writing this from Chrome and I must say it's clean, fast and pretty darn cool :)

Can I haz Firebug in Chrome plz?

OMG. The speed.

about:memory

Copy-paste of my reddit response.<p>Not saying it's all bad, and I realize this is a first release, but if Google wants to avoid the "MS Vista" stamp when it comes to software-making they might consider fixing up the following points:<p>1. Downloading the "installer" doesn't download the complete software.<p>2. Installer presents everything in Norwegian, with no choice of English. I want my software in English, end of story. There is no way to select English, so for now I assume this is based on some Windows locale-settings which I will just configure properly after install.<p>3. Configuration hangs to the point of me almost killing the process. After eating a few minutes worth of 100% CPU time, Chrome launches. No feedback is given during this period that it is actually working on anything at all.<p>4. Once running, Chrome is still in Norwegian mode.<p>5. Options (or "Alternativer") shows no way to select a English UI language.<p>6. The language-pack seems to include a spell-checking. This entire text-box is filled with red lines. Because this is not written in Norwegian.<p>7. Scrolling trough this small text-box proceeds to scroll down the entire page when I reach the end. With what seems like 200 lines of scrolling per millimeter on my laptop touchpad, this renders the scrolling area basically useless for edits. This also applies to page-down in textboxes. Very, very, very annoying.<p>8. Scrolling in general scrolling seems way too fast also. Like 2-3 pages on what should be 1.<p>Out of the box this is <i>not</i> something I am happy with, and this needs to be improved about 100 times from second 1.<p>A few simple choices (like language) must be added. Better reporting to the user that something is actually being worked on needs to be present. Configurability is shit. It has a <i>task manager</i> for web-page tabs (i.e. "geek stuff"), but wont let you configure basic stuff like if opening links in new tabs should activate them or not.<p>I'm going to have to <i>uninstall</i> this now and try to get hold of a English version.<p>Edit: The language thingie evidently can be fixed without reinstalling. I just couldn't find it with the non computing-standard language used in the options dialog.<p>Edit 2: Now I find that google search always presents me the <i>Norwegian</i> version, not the english, when searching from the url-bar. Despite having "I want google in english" cookies firmly set.<p>This is bloody annoying. Stop forcing localization on me damnit!