A few us have been using Chrome here in the office today a and first impressions are generally good.

I’m not going to run down the whole feature list, only what was obvious to me right away.

• Pages render at lightening speed, it feels faster than FireFox.
• Element inspector – a firebug style debug tool built in.
• Omnibox – makes sense to just have one input box in the top bar although I do keep entering URL’s without the HTTP:// which returns a google search. Habit I guess.
• Ability to drag tabs to a new or existing instance of Chrome.
• Crashes don’t kill the whole app, only the current tab.
• Easy install, imported bookmarks & history effortlessly.
• Speed dial – loved this in opera, nuff said.
• I haven’t come across any sites it has broken yet although I know there are some found by others.
• Bookmarking functions seem a little basic (thanks Rich).
• It looks and feels great!

Interestingly, it identifies itself as “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13“ 

I’m curious about the Safari bit, wonder if this matches the Chrome render engine most closely.

I have set it as my default Windows browser for now, will report how I get on.