Chrome does not have master password and cannot remember userids/passwords per page, only per site. Opera includes both features. I haven't checked if those have been added to Chromium.

I have been using the Chrome-Beta for a couple of weeks now and it has supplanted Opera as my browser of choice. Fast, clean and I like the option of anonymous browsing. I don't like the history that builds up and am constantly clearing my browsing history. I would like the option of keeping some and loosing the rest of my history.

I guess I am missing Opera's Speed Dial that way. Good basic browser, I hope it does not get too weighted down with extensions the way Firefox has.

I've been trying out Chrome on my Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit) install, and while it's a bit faster than Firefox, it's not omgsuperduperwheeee fast. My system is just a 1.6GHz Centrino with 512mb RAM, though, so YMMV.

Initially, I was quite happy to see all of the extensions available, then wasn't as impressed after using them. :-/ The various ad-blocking extensions only seem to have two modes: show ads for a moment, or delay all page rendering. I also wasn't terribly happy to find that we couldn't customize much about it visually -- can't move the menu or make it text (not a wrench), move icons, move the toolbars or tab bar, let extensions show relevant text/numbers next to the icons, etc.

I *was* very amused to find that Chrome seemed to be on LSD whenever I used a theme... While the tabs would match whatever the preview screenshot showed, the background behind them would be way out of whack, resulting in things like bright purple grass! I admit I also feel that the themes/personas from the Firefox community are more attractive than the "professional" art for Chrome & Google IG (Homepage) -- then again, I'm the one person that doesn't think Ubuntu 9.10's default flat gray panel icons are gorgeous... ;)

I have been use Chromium daily builds version on my Ubuntu 8.04 for about 3 months now. Daily updates are put out automatically via the Launchpad PPA which has made it so easy. Over the months, even days, I have watched it improve, bugs fixed and features added. Now I have made it my default. All plugins now work out-of-the-box, except the PDF plugin. I hardly come across a web page that doesn't render correctly. It is extremely stable, and despite being a daily builds version, it has only closed itself down 3 times, and then upon reopening offers to reload the tabs.

Why I prefer Chromium over Firefox for now? Speed on starting and closing, an efficient interface with no rarely used and space hogging menu bar, ability to pin tabs while shrinking the tab button, I prefer the bookmarking better, and an important one for me, a remarkable reduction in hard drive hunting leading to a much quieter PC, while at the same time the bookmarks appear faster than Firefox. Also, I hardly used Firefox extensions so I don't miss them.

Actually, it turns out that, for me, Chromium for Ubuntu 8.04 on my 4yr old bottom of the line Dell is as fast as any browser I have used on any platform even on much newer and powerful PC's. This is one remarkable piece of coding work. I wish all software was like this.

I am very impressed with Chromium for Linux. All the above, combined with the native GTK theme makes Chromium blend in with the desktop. Combined with Ubuntu, Chromium makes the PC one very efficient trouble free tool. As for Chrome beta for Linux I haven't tried it yet.

I find the GTK integration to be lacking - the tabs are the wrong shape, the menu bar is the wrong colour, the scroll bars aren't themed properly, etc. I may be a bit picky with this stuff but I'll stick with FF for these reasons alone...

I have been using Chrome Beta on Ubuntu 9.10 since the beta became available. My observation is that it is much more stable than Firefox even though Chrome for Linux is still in its beta stage. It never crashed once during my extensive browsing.

You might be right that it lacks the robustness of plugin support right now, but I think for people like me, flash is pretty much the only plugin needed.

I don't share your experience at all.I had zero problems running chrome on Ubuntu 9.10. It's blazing fast and havn't had any problems rendering pages at all

You mention missing extensions but can download a lot of extensions to chrome 4 beta at https://chrome.google.com/extensions

Why do you use Suse? As opposed to CentOS or Ubuntu or Fedora? Just curious.

10.10 is pretty fast, very stable and fully featured in all OS, it's QT4 enabled.

10.50 alpha kicks the ass of Chrome, and is faster in benchmarks than it, with more speed to come..

I still don't understand how anybody can consider Firefox fast at all. Try opening a dozen pages in tabs, and watch your machine grind to a halt while the CPU is completely consumed and Firefox leaks memory everywhere. I do this every day (interesting links bookmark groups, etc), and Chrome just opens a load of tabs instantly, and loads the pages very very quickly; far faster than FF 3.5. And I've not had a rendering fault I've noticed yet.

As for stability, I've not had it crash once since I've been using it, which is about two months.

Flash worked out of the box under Debian and Ubuntu. And when the Flash applet crashes (which it does, of course) it doesn't take the browser with it.

And as for the guy who said Chrome's font size is unadjustable and it's too stupid to work out for itself a good font size, he's clearly too stupid to click the "Change font and language settings" button in the preferences dialogue.

Tried Google Chrome - pretty fast, but didn't like it, not very stable. Now using Firefox 3.6 beta 4 (just updated to beta 5), which has been almost as fast to load as Chrome and totally stable.

There have been MANY!

I run the 64 bit linux version and the poster above is 100% correct. Many - too many - websites will not load, load excessively slow, or not at all on Google Chrome, and only Google Chrome. I also run 64 bit Opera, Firefox, and Konqueror - all with zero issues on these exact same websites that Chrome has major issues with.

I noticed the same 'ol "reinstall it/reconfigure it/try different repo's" garbage. NO! Either it works on the first install or its trash and should be avoided. Its not an Open Source app, therefore its not worth the time or trouble.

Most websites do not even render correctly with Chrome. It crashes 9 out of 10 times you use it. Fast? Sorry, but Firefox 3.5.6 is twice as fast as the lastest Chrome Beta. The interface is 'decent', but how about putting the 'Other Bookmarks' button where we DONT need the bookmarks toolbar visible?!?! All in All I appreciate what they are trying to do, but at this point Chrome is about 3 years from being anywhere near a decent browser.

Try visiting the imdb.com with the latest Chromium and see what I mean.

I currently have both Chrome and the latest build of Chromium on my system.

Extensions? Personally never had the need, choke up the browser IMHO.

I have not gone back to Firefox since around Sept/Oct (except for a quick Quake Live blast) and I would expect/hope that 2010 sees some of the "mainstream" distro's bundling it as default.

What I wanted to say was that the Chromium contributors need to be praised! A recent bug was fixed on 25th December (or maybe early hours of 26th) and to me shows the enthusiasm and dedication they have. Well done Chromium! I cannot see myself ever needing FF again for surfing (If a new build of Chromium breaks, I have Chrome on standby)

Great stuff.

Kind regards,
Goblin.