I've been testing Chrome off-and-on for a while. It's quite fast, but has lacked basic features that make it usable day-to-day.

That's all changed recently. While still light on features, it actually has enough of a core to present a usable daily browser.

1. Plugin support. Only 32-bit plugins work (I'm using AMD64), but those are easily installed. 32-bit Flash seems to work as well as it ever has (here's one place 64-bit would have really helped).
2. Themes. Not a lot, but they are there.
3. Fonts. Still not ideal, but much improved over previous alphas.
4. Stability. I'm actually fairly impressed. Even failures on youtube (you get a cute sad-mac sort of face) don't crash the browser and a refresh seems to get you rolling again.

In any case, I've set Chrome to be my default browser for the near future. I'm clearly going to miss lots of the Firefox plugins (web developer and firebug especially), but I don't use those as much as I used to anyway.

Firefox 3.5 on Linux has turned into a huge disappointment. It's just plain not fast. In fact, it seems quite noticeably slower than 3.0. I'm sure the Mozilla team knows what's best for their browser, but I'm not sure it's what's best for my Linux laptop. So here's to hoping Chrome is the future of the Linux browser.