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Well I guess like every other technology blogger I should give my impression of Google Chrome so as not to disappoint here goes.

Overall I’m very impressed, especially for a first beta release.

1. It’s fast, start up speed is blazingly fast and rendering time on regular pages is good. Javascript heavy sites are very responsive with little or no delay.
2. It’s simple, uncluttered interface is very appealing. It gets the job done with a minimum of options and fuss.
3. If you save pages as applications shortcuts it really does blur the line between local applications on your PC and those running from the internet. A bit like the shortcuts using in some netbooks where email points directly to gmail but even more so.
4. As far as another browser in the marketplace I think more competition can only be a good thing.
5. Very pleased they made it open source, no doubt the new V8 Javascript virtual machine and other elements will make it into other browsers. This will raise the bar for all browser vendors.
6. Looking at the speed improvements it leaves the other browsers way behind and makes IE7/8 seem even more bloated. If Google really push this then it I think it’s a major threat to IE, plus it really takes the wind out of the sails of the unreleased IE8 (not like there was much excitement to begin with).
7. If people are going to use this as their main browser it will need extensions. I just can’t handle seeing adverts again!

Of course I’ve only tested this on Windows (not my OS of choice) but I’m really looking forward to running it on Linux when available.