Today I realized what I miss when it comes to Google Chrome browser. Here’s a short list of things I miss:

• Google Toolbar for Chrome (especially for Google Bookmarks and Page Rank, I think these two are the main features I use from the toolbar)
• StumbleUpon toolbar for Google Chrome. Yep! A definitive need here, since I like to give thumbs up to pages I like and I like to do it easily without looking for a stumble that button on that particular page. I like to have my own, OK?
• I don’t know why, I miss the main menu that I actually never use, but somehow the browser looks kind of under-construction without it. Or it may be just me…
• A home button, that usually leads me to Google. I know I have that “New tab” button that usually lists Google there because I visit it often, but hey, old habits die hard, OK? Later edit: the fact that the address bar acts also as a search field somehow solves this issue…
• A stats bar. I don’t know why but I don’t like that status bar that comes and goes when something happens. And I also don’t like the location of the search field. But again, it may be just me…

As you probably know, Google just launched his own browser, Google Chrome, not just a browser, but more of an application platform. Very interesting to note a few technical features like a new and improved virtual machine developed by a team in Denmark, multi-process behavior, not just multi-thread, etc.

The fact that the browser is multi-process is an advantage in the case one of the tabs is busy with something, waiting for a script to load, this won’t affect how other tabs will work, you will not have to wait after the blocked tab. That’s an advantage.

Another one is the fact that memory management will be better in case of multi-process than in case of multi-threading, where after a long day working on the same instance of browser, after repetedly opening and closing tabs memory gets used and not released. It happens, really, a lot of time. If you don’t buy this, think of how much memory the browser takes at the end of the day. Am I right or what?

What I would like to say more about this is the fact that Google has a very interesting testing procedure, they test on around one million web sites, but WHICH WEBSITES? Well, they know which are the most visited websites in the world, right? They know it because they practically own the internet, so they test their new browser on the first most visited web sites in the world, making sure that at least these sites won’t crash on you!

What I didn’t like at this moment, but I am sure they will fix it, is the fact that my loved Google bookmarks are not there yet. Yeap, Google supports Google toolbar for Firefox and IE but not yet for Google Chrome…Damn!

At this moment, I can say that Google Chrome is not yet a powerful browser, it is actually in beta testing, it is more of a browser released to face and scare the competition.

One more question still bothers me: why after supporting Firefox for such a long time with AdSense, paying for downloads, promoting it on Google homepage, why are they hitting it so hard? Because in my opinion, the main loser here will be Firefox, not IE, because IE is attached since a long time and until losing the winner position it will take a while, but Firefox will probably be soon forgotten because of Google Chrome, because, in my opinion, Google Chrome and Firefox have both the same profile of users.

So, will actually Firefox users migrate to Google Chrome? What do you say?