I consider the Chrome to be the best browser (I use Windows XP) since version Beta 4, when extensions support was added. I switched from Firefox, mostly because it is considerably slower. As I see it, Chrome just out-innovated FF.
- Chrome doesn't support bookmark shortcuts; I use SuperGenPass in FF as a bookmark with a shortcut of "p", so in any form, rather than needing to click the mouse, I can do Ctrl-L, p, enter
- Chrome doesn't "support" unorganized and tagged bookmarks like FF3 does. I like being able to file/search bookmarks by tags, separately from a small hierarchy of most-used bookmarks on the toolbar.
- Chrome doesn't support bookmark separators, which are a "nicety" for organizing bookmarks in folders on the toolbar. Something small like that really does help with visual recognition and hand-eye coordination.
For example, if I want to type "yc" in the address bar to get to news.yc:
1. right click address bar, select "edit search engines"
2. click the add button
3. give it name like "news.yc", keyword is "yc" url is http://new.ycombinator.com. The "%s" in the url isn't required.
When I imported my bookmarks from firefox, it did this automatically. It took me forever to figure out how to add new ones.
edit: formatting
Not to mention, Firefox has a nasty habit of getting slow over the months as the "Awesome bar" stores more and more cruft in SQLite databases. I heard there is a command-line way to trim/optimize the SQLite databases, but seriously, Mozilla expects me to bust out a command line to keep their browser from being slow? Not to mention the memory usage in Firefox is terrible at times.
they're working on that, though, apparently.
Chrome Gestures
Copy Without Formatting
RSS Subscription Extension
Not many, actually, but the first one was a deal breaker. Some websites just have too small a font for my eyes and having to zoom in every time I visit the website was extremely annoying. Also, if I remember correctly, the previous versions didn't support F11 fullscreen mode.