Bling.

So Google dropped a bomb on the Internet yesterday in the form of a new browser called Chrome.  I've been playing with it, in fact I'm using it while I compose this post, and I've developed some early opinions on it.

• It looks great, very clean and simple user interface.
• The "start" page is brilliant.  It show your bookmarks and your most frequently visited sites right there where they always should have been.
• Low memory usage and it's fast.  It's using a ton less memory than Firefox 3 but its not much faster.
• Incognito Mode!  This mode allows you to browse without the browser caching anything or storing any history of where you've been browsing....in other words, best porn browser ever.
• It's not quite stable yet, typical Google "beta".
• I'm not wild about how it handles bookmarks other than the "start" page stuff.

Everyone is freaking out thinking that this going to hurt Firefox's market share of the browser market.  It's good enough and it may very well cost FF some users but it still lacks Firefox's greatest asset...plugins.  I'll use Chrome but without the plugins I use EVERY DAY within Firefox it will only be a novelty.  The real reason Chorme exists is to prepare users for Google's forthcoming "Android" mobile platform.