I expect (say) my bookmarks to be synced between all my computers. I'm sure plugins do this on other browsers, though.

The biggest reason I don't consider Opera or FF for daily use anymore: Non-chrome browsers drive me crazy due to the way they close tabs. It is very stressful compared to mouse-closing tabs in Chrome and its "smart positioning."

I love using the 'smart tab positioning' example: how many times have people moved the mouse to close 4 or 5 tabs? Sure, it's not an impossible headache. But most of us do it regularly enough that it's nice to have the button in the same place for each tab. It's almost as if the designers used a web browser before. And it's great.

And hard to imagine giving up.

I would expect that most people close multiple tabs with [cmd|ctrl]-w, precisely because of the back and forth mousing otherwise required. One thing I've worried about while using Chrome has been accidentally closing more than one tab at once, since, being a klutz, I don't have wonderful control over my index finger, and triple-clicking to select a paragraph is so common that I do it accidentally sometimes when intending to single click on a button or something. So far, I don't think it's actually happened very often, though.

  I would expect that most people close multiple tabs with [cmd|ctrl]-w

I find I use mouse close most often when I'm "info dumping", as mouse scroll and cmd+click to open a new tab are, for me, mouse operations. Rapid open/close of several pages is normal. Once I have 3-5 on a topic, I go "info diving" and nothing gets closed 'till the end, at which point cmd+w is how I tend to close out of the extra pages I had open. But cmd+w by even power users is, in my experience rare.

I like Chrome.

As it stands unless I'm wrong a user would have to go digging for these shortcuts online or by clicking help and actually knowing what they are looking for. Seems like a stretch for most browser users.

The rest might be a personal prefference, but I rarely use the mouse to close tabs anyway, ctrl+w is faster, and I can hit that as many times as I want without moving the cursor anywhere. I also preffer the / and ' shortcuts firefox has.

The alternative is sorting the tabs somehow, but that's more maintance than a middle click.

I also sort of wish I could press Alt+Tab, and have clickable close buttons in that UI.

just like how you can middle close to close a tab in most browsers

But in Chrome they aren't resized until your mouse leaves that area. This way you can close multiple tabs with clicking, no movement required.

And this comes from a former hardcore Mozilla fan :)

thanks!

One cool thing not to miss is in the unified location bar, it does some search stuff via the 'manage' button in the basics pref pane. It auto-senses search fields on various websites and lists them there, then you can go in and setup a trigger for it (eg, wikipedia => W, google images => gi, etc).

As many replies to your comment suggest, the user experience is pretty great. However, in my opinion, OP was probably referring to the awesome performance of V8 (the Javascript "engine" under the hood). Chrome has become my defacto recommendation to anyone who uses Javascript-heavy web apps. There's also a nice set of developer utilities for Chrome that make it a very useful tool when developing web applications. Perhaps he's suggesting that, as a tool, he finds it indispensable?

I would hate to have to go back to browsers older than 1 or 2 years though. Or IE.