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The one thing it doesn't have at this point?

Extensions.

I'm guessing there are plenty of people who will dig the browser, but without the bells and whistles provided by extensions, many users won't switch.

I can live without AdBlock/FlashBlock, since I don't frequent many sites that have heavy third-party content, but as I said above, I can't live without Firebug right now.

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In the presser, they said an Extension API is forthcoming.

The first thing I thought when I saw Chrome was that they want to stop/override programs like AdBlock for their search ads.

If that's the case, I go to filtering proxies at my end.

Oh yeah! I forgot about those. Now I can use Opera. Well, I could if I used Windows. Any auto-updating filtering proxies for Linux?

http://www.proxomitron.info/ was the old standby

That would be the most ridiculous reason they would want to develop a completely new browser for.

Not necessarily. AdBlock is the most popular extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:a...

440,000 people download it a week. That's a lot of people not even seeing their search ads!

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