(First a big thanks to Josh Lowensohn for letting this lowly Mac-not-running-parallels slob check it out on his machine)

Clearly this is the most web-app friendly browser, ever. Whereas Firefox 3 enabled some great new technology (like Feedly), Google's Chrome gives due to all the existing web-app technology by recasting the essential metaphors of the browser from the perspective of web-apps rather than web-sites, for instance stand alone windows and shortcuts for applications. ffwd was designed to be such an app and I'm glad to say it runs great on Google Chrome. How could it not with exceptional support for Javascript and WebKit rendering? However I'm disappointed with one major decision: putting the tabs at the top. Granted the web-application world can feel good about giving the application names top billing in the window, but there would have been far more benefit in moving them to the bottom. If they had been moved to the bottom, then the browser-as-desktop look would have been complete. OS X, Windows, and most flavors of Linux dock active applications at the bottom of the screen. Immaterial of whether that's the best UI (which I happen to think it is), copying it would have reduced resistance tremendously to the adoption of web-apps by desktop users.

Google either did not think about it enough or is cynically trying to make the Omnibar look like it's part of every application. A giant search box just isn't the best first line of navigation for every web app. Don't believe me? Take a look at this screenshot of Yelp with the smallest possible Firefox header.

While Yelp has opted to highlight search lower in the UI. In Chrome (I can only imagine since again I'm a lowly Mac user), there would be an extremely confusing additional search bar given priority above the menus. Furthermore the fact that this Chrome-like minimalism is possible but so uncommonly used in Firefox that it has become a selling point for Chrome is further proof that a more desktop-like default layout is a huge missed opportunity.

Either way I hope Google changes it ASAP, otherwise a huge opportunity for the emerging web application space (that's not internal to Google, anyway) will be lost. Web apps will thrive more if they look as much like desktop apps as possible. So, please Google move everything you can to the bottom of the window, so the  javascript menus you went to great pains to process better will have a shot at thwarting the hegemony of "File Edit etc.".