The Beta only arrived this week (first week in September 2008), but already Googles entry into the web browser wars has caused a storm. Chrome is quite different to the main incumbents Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5/6/7/8, or Mozilla Firefox (Currently at version 3.01).
Firstly there is no search box, and where the URL (page address) lives in the browsers we're used to, there is now something called an "Omnibox" which functions both to display the URl of the page, and also as a search box, where you can type your phrase for a conventional (Google) search result.
The browser does seem to be very fast however, but it does suffer in some eyes from the lack of add-ons. For example as a web marketeer we like to use the Google Toolbar (in Internet explorer or Firefox) to see the page rank of any page we're viewing. Nothing like this is available thus far with Chrome.
There are a couple of other bugs - I noticed today that our blogger account (owned by Google) formats posts wrongly when edited using Chrome. However Chrome is fast, slick, innovative, brand new, and most importantly free. You can download your own copy of Chrome here.
