Despite some stats that show it no faster than FF3, chrome really *seemed* faster. I think it's just that I'm seeing a more responsive page. JS heavy pages really do fly with chrome. Seemed a little IO heavy and I think there seem to be some issues with plugins like flash gobbling memory ( i need adblock plus ).

I love the UI simplifications. It was only confusing for a moment or two before the beauty of the choices really started to sink in. It's really nice to see google aggressively pushing web-as-platform to new heights as well as turning around and giving it all back to the community to play with.

As a first release it's a keeper, I can only imagine what they can do as they integrate the 100/100 acid3 compliant version of webkit and push a Mac ( and linux? ) release out the door.