So I just tested Chrome. Big thumbs down.

Not only is the browser really, really fugly - why do they all feel the need to design their stuff with blue task bars? That's not pretty! I like the classic gray windows design, thank you very much. At least give me an option to have my browser fit in with the rest of my computer theme. - but it lacks a proper menu. I hate browsers that don't have a proper menu. IE7 started that trend, and now all the browsers are copying it. I would like to have a menu item that says Bookmarks, please, not some little star symbol that I have to hover my cursor over before I know what it does.

Then, there's the custom formatted history. Firefox 3 has that, too. I really don't like it. I like my history to be a list of simple URLs in black font, size 10. I don't want any formatting in there, and I don't want to use my address bar as a search interface. Call me old-fashioned, but I like it when the address bar is used as just that. Oh, and the disappearing and reappearing status bar. Can you say annoying much?

Worst thing about Chrome, though, is the warning page it gives you when you visit 'non-secure' sites. I wanted to test the pop-up blocker, so I went to a crack site. It wouldn't let me in. It told me that - *gasp* - the site I'm trying to visit could contain malware! (Well, duh, honey. It's a crack site.) It felt the need to tell me so by presenting me with a huge red site that made my eyes want to fall out and die, too. I think I still have the impressions on my retinas. Anyway, I checked the little check box that was supposed to tell Chrome to 'stfu, I know what I'm doing' - and it redirected me back to the warning site. Now, I'm quite sure that's a bug, since what I downloaded was obviously the beta version, but still, wtf? I know how to navigate the internet. I don't need my browser to mommy me.

At least Chrome seems to read standard CSS. That's a plus. I wouldn't want to have to learn another long list of hacks. I guess I'm gonna take another look once they've figured out the worst of the bugs and release the first stable version, but from what I've seen so far, I think I'm sticking with Firefox.