Okay, I've just downloaded Google Chrome, I'll report my findings here.
Just downloaded. Hey, why is the app named "Google Chrome" and not just "Chrome"? That's a bit confusing, Mozilla named their app "Firefox" and not "Mozilla Firefox" after all.
Okay, drag the app to the 'Applications' folder, it installs in a second, even though it's twice as large a file as Firefox. I open up the browser, dock it and it asks me if it will be my default browser; I say no, as I don't trust it yet. I do want to send my usage statistics, so I check that box.
The browser starts rather quickly and wow, it looks beautiful on my Mac, looks like it stole Opera's quick dial screen but not as good, because these are your "most visited" sites.
Because I have a tiny screen (only 13"), I try maximizing it but fail (it becomes bigger but doesn't maximize), I need to drag it manually so I hope it remembers my setting for window size.
I try setting Google as quick dia- erm 'most visited site' 1 but fail; I can't set those manually, crap.
I navigate to Google.com, it says "this site is in Dutch, would you like to translate it?" NO MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SOFTWARE, I SPEAK DUTCH! Damn, if it would've read my system settings it would've seen that I speak Dutch, of course Chrome wasn't written for OSX...
I must say I'm impressed however, typing in the address bar feels much more fluently.
Now I navigate to Newgrounds.com and rejoice! IT SUPPORTS KEYCHAIN!!!
I open up a new tab (which is nicely animated) and browse to Google.com, immediately I think "hey, nothing happened when I pressed enter" so I type google.com again and press enter, still nothing happens.
I wait, and see it actually loads the page, but I just didn't notice that it was loading. Well, that can probably be fixed with a theme, although I might not want to theme this beautiful browser.
Browsing the BBS, I noticed that multitouch scrolling is a bit smoother, but not as fast as I would like it, hope there's a setting for that. Turns out "change scroll speed chrome" is actually a suggested search term but nothing comes up besides some extension (smoothscroll).
Well, considering this browser is pretty good I'll install that extension.
I press the install button and after being presented a little warning (which isn't as annoying as Firefox's) it's been installed. I don't have to restart the browser, or even reload the page, it just works immediately.
Now scrolling has been fixed, I decide to check if it has built-in spell checking, luckily it has! Not only does it have spell checking but it also allows me to type in both Dutch and English without changing my language setting all the time (like Camino has). It probably uses OS-X's built in dictionary (also like Camino).
Now, let's move to the final and hardest test: Minecraft! Never before has a browser in OS-X properly played Minecraft classic for me, it always had weird issues with the Java thingy not loading most of the time.
I log in (with keychain!) join a server and it seems like my browser crashed... Oh wait, now this is awesome, while one of my tabs is frozen, it allows me to open another tab and work in that one!
In the time it took me to find that out, my Minecraft has loaded, or at least, it pretended to.
Nope, Minecraft doesn't work properly but that might also be Apple's fault (in fact, it probably is).
I move on to check other features, just like Firefox it allows you to search in the address bar, which is a function Microsoft called "confusing". I wonder what's so confusing about it, because it's just "type thingy in, press enter to search".
Now, another feature that I wanted really bad was the Rapidshare link checker, luckily it's a Greasemonkey script!
I press install and after a slightly longer process than installing an add-on, it's working! I didn't even need a Greasemonkey add-on!
I move to a page that has a Rapidshare link and notice one thing: it's not working...
Restart Chrome ("Chrome isn't your default browser", fuck you Google), move to the page again and it's still not working.
I wonder if I did something wrong...
Well, I'll figure that out later.
After typing this massive post, I'll come to my conclusion:
GOOGLE CHROME IS FUCKING AWESOME!
I can't rate it yet, because I need to use it longer (to experience compatibility) but for now it's a 9/10, which can still become lower if compatibility turns out to be shit (I guess it won't).