After using Chrome for a while (a LOT last week), I'm finding it does load pages rather quickly and I do like the thumbnails of recently visited sites when it loads. I'm not sure if I prefer that to Opera's "Speed Dial", where I control the site thumbnails that are displayed. I'm thinking some mixture of the two would be best. Default with loading recently viewed pages and allow users to override that with specific sites.
Chrome's startup speed is quick and I haven't run into any rendering issues I haven't already seen with Firefox, Opera, or Safari on Windows. The main things I don't like are:
- The default look on Windows XP. From what I've seen, Chrome looks snazzy on Vista.
- The lack of a "File" menu so I can open HTML files on my local computer.
Other than that, Chrome has been running very well for me. It's a solid beta.
I'm eager to get my hands on the Linux version.

I just hope the Linux version won't require KDE.
Peace...