I’ve been keeping up with the Chrome for Linux dev channel and it’s slowly coming together. Last week I noticed a better integrated skin so it actually looks ready. Plugins now work too despite still being very buggy. Flash is as slow as hell with video and keeps crashing. For some reason nearly everytime a tab does crash it make me laugh to see a play on the old Mac error icon. 
It’s fast. Oh it’s so fast. I still use Firefox for work because of the addons but Chrome shows it up big time. Google released it because there was a giant great big gaping hole in the market where folks were either defaulting or giving in to geek propaganda.
Honestly, Firefox is the slowest application to start up that I use. I use heavy applications like InDesign and Photoshop and they do powerful intensive stuff. Firefox is just slow and eats RAM even when closed down.
But this isn’t about that. I’m happy because now I can use a browser without having to take a strole while it starts up. I bet I couldn’t blink before Chrome starts up. [EDIT: Just tried, no I can't - but I am really tired 
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Look at it’s sleak interface with minimal fuss and size. Oh I love it. If Google release an OS like this Linux (as we know it) can pack it’s bags. Actually, maybe people with real lives using computers might catch on.
