So, for the past week, I made the switch over to Google Chrome as my default browser and have been giving it a whirl. The notion of a super lightweight, extremely fast, standards compliant browser is an appealing one and I had high hopes for embracing the change. However, I\'m fairly set in my ways with Firefox and find myself missing a handful of features that I can\'t go without. Here\'s the good and the bad of Chrome by my viewing:

Chrome Pros:

• Loads extremely fast
• Renders pages extremely fast
• Has built in \"bookmark save\" - so if your computer crashes, you can still get all your saved locations back instantly.
• Clean standard interface. Maybe not as pretty as Safari but not near as gross as Firefox default look.
• Downloads bar integrated into browser.. pretty nice.

Chrome Cons:

• No Firebug; this is a huge downfall for development. Yes, it has Firebug Lite, Web Developer tools and the Debug Panel but none of them are as good as Firebug.
• Weird Flash bug where buttons don\'t register as the hand cursor, making it difficult to see what is clickable.
• No multi-search, only the big address bar search straight to google - this is sub-par in comparison to the multi-search in Firefox.
• Sort of hate the tab system - I admit this is just because they are different but that makes it no less of a legitimate gripe.

There are more points on both sides of the coin but, on the whole, I\'m not ready to make the switch. I really wish Firefox wasn\'t such a bloated memory hog but the few other touches it provides make it worth it for me... for now.