Yeah, make that "allow docking the task manager". Though I still miss a total about how many bytes got downloaded, average speed etc. I also miss it in other browsers (though I should have made that more clear, I wasn't meaning to "bash Chrome" -- this frustrates me since the departure of old Opera, with all browsers, I love the powerful web API stuff but I hate the user interface directions).

And to repeat myself, I really do miss something akin to the icon that displays which tabs are playing sound -- not for myself, but because it would allow people to notice the difference between bloated and well crafted pages more easily.

I appreciate they prefer to automatically decide what is best, but I would prefer more gauges, at least as an accessible option. If you hide something behind an "advanced" label, it will just scare people off for no reason. It's not like configurations dialog aren't kinda barren and padded as is. Just fix that and then just put things there, neatly categorized and maybe even searchable, and explain them. People can drive cars and vote for politicians, but we can't trust them to read? Just about any image viewer or video player seems to think more highly of people than browsers of all things do.

Yes. The browser is slowly becoming it's own operating system. Like Oracle making a bare-metal version of their database, pretty soon, Google will just skip ChromeOS, bundle Chrome with a storage driver, input driver, and video and sound drivers, and be done with it.