I don’t think it’s a stupid poll but I do agree that adding a time element is a good ideas. Thanks for the suggestion - the poll has now been updated.

Great post. My feeling is that a lot of Firefox users made the switch because of the ability to use add-ons. I am not even going to bother downloading Chrome until it can support these. So short term, probably little impact. But longer term … whole different argument. Google controls so many popular web applications that they will have a leg up on any other browser in terms of smooth integration.

My bet is that this will be huge in 2 years. Remember how MSFT killed Netscape? I think this is the open-source equivalent.

There are sufficient UI oddities that will cause Chrome (in its current state) to be either loathed by the mass market or loved. Confusing iconography (a ‘new page/document’ icon) munges a selection of the contents of standard application menus (new/edit/view commands) into one contextual dialog pulldown, some items of which could arguably best live in the ‘wrench’ menu and vice versa.

Given the type of people raving about it, Chrome overall appears to be designed to suit a very different audience: short-sighted casual users. With its relatively giant fonts particularly in the search bar, but also the default type scaling in page content, to me the browser feels graphically oversized and clunky.

Tabs within the window frame are quite elegant, may be arguably suitable within the Windows world where the space is reserved for the process/application name + close commands but certainly out of place (and not at all trivial to implement) in Apple’s OS X. That said, kudos to Google’s engineers for solving the problem of indicating that the hide, zoom, and close buttons at top-right are tied to the Chrome parent process and will exit all tab processes.

I expect Google will see a large spike of new users this week followed by a substantial drop in the geek world. Corporate and baby-boomer home users will be this browser’s long-term bread and butter.