I tried Chrome.  It was OK.  Just didn't have that many features.  I'm kind of a nut, I suppose.  I use Opera, IE6, and Firefox, almost every day.   Opera for low-friction general browsing, IE6 for "compatibility", and Firefox for its insane plugins (there will be a post about this, soon, I guess).  I'm typing this very post in IE, because this very BlogEngine refuses to let me create new links with Opera.  (As someone who has done the "make it work in IE" thing more times that I can count, I don't think this is a problem with Opera, per se, but then, I really don't care.)

But yeah, I tried Chrome, and it was fine.  But that's the thing.  I was just trying it.  Like most people.  I wasn't looking to change my life.  Which makes the fact that Chrome has lost market share the most surprising news since my shoe fell all the way to the floor when I dropped it.  Chrome has a couple very interesting innovations -- its JavaScript VM and its process/threading model -- but the version that's out today feels a lot like the time I rode in the early prototype hybrid car my friend was working on in college in 1996.  Cool, very promising, but just not done.  I'll see if I can dig up the breathless newspaper clippings from the next day, about how 100% of the friends of the Future Car team members who had ridden around in the hybrid had gone back to driving their regular cars.