Not that anyone asked for another browser but Google has taken it upon itself to create its own.  Let me just cut the crap and get right to it.  I'm going to look at this from a networking standpoint first, because well, that's where you end up no matter how pretty something looks.

Here's some normal IE8 beta 2 traffic

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-application, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/x-silverlight-2-b2, application/x-silverlight, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; MS-RTC LM 8)
UA-CPU: x86
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: www.cnn.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

here's some normal firefox 3 traffic

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.cnn.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie : <removed>

so far, so good, so what?  BEFORE you even hit that go button in Chrome, here's what's going on that you don't see as you're typing (in my case, www.cnn.com)

GET /complete/search?client=chrome&output=chrome&hl=en-US&q=www HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
Cookie: <removed>
Accept-Language: en-US,en
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,*,utf-8
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,bzip2
Host: clients1.google.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

I'm sorry?  clients1.google.com?  Navigate to it and surprise, it's just a simple run of the mill google search page.  After this magic traffic to client1.google.com, I send out my request to cnn and I'm surprised again by what type its built on.  Wait for it...

GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Cookie: <removed>
Accept-Language: en-US,en
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,*,utf-8
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,bzip2
Host: www.cnn.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

How interesting, Apple has said they've got a big announcement later this week.  Hmmmmm.  Are we going to see a Goople phone?  Anyway, moving on to the rest of the application, I do happen to like a couple developer features they built into it, such as debug javascript, javascript console and task manager (even got a "geek stats" button in that task manager thats really cool). 

I don't see myself using this browser much really.  Yea it's another option, yea its from google, but ...so what?

We were talking about this @ lunch a few days back, how people are now actually considering apple as a home computer because its "so much better" and the "cute commercials" with the business guy and the younger guy "I'm a mac" "and I'm a PC".  Our dicussion began to tail off into the secret world of "Mac's can do no wrong" and if you dare break any of the Mac commandments (this one in particular, "Thou shall not speakith against the mighty Apple!" not to be confused with "Thou shall not hack Apple products!")

Well guess what, people are actually complaining now ...and its not just a few of 'em.

http://scobleizer.com/2007/11/17/twitter-reactions-to-apples-os-update/#comments

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1096520&tstart=0

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/2007/11/22/more_leopard_problems_plague_apple/

http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Leopard_Upgrade_Issues

http://www.macnn.com/news/48462

and a bunch others.

I swear, I don't go lookin for this stuff, but I'm very excited when I do.  Jeremey Allison is a huge supporter of open source code and in my opinion, does -NOT- like microsoft at all.  He's been cautiously outspoken them and their security practices which the obligatory response comes "who isn't?".  Well, interestingly (but not unexpected) enough, he's ran into a big surprise ...his code isn't secure and raised quite a stink.  I'm not dogging him for it, I'd be the first to admit my code isn't perfect (stop laughing!) but at least he's admitted it which begs the question -- did he tell on himself because there was no one else to blame?  Further, its written in C.  Do I think C is dead? Oh god no.  Is it dated?  Probably.  Do I think there's "better"?  Sure.  Is it practical?  mmmm, that's unclear with the answer of "probably not" (anyone got a c#/java version of samba sitting around?).