What are the benefits to Google Chrome?

John, a timely question as I was following a Facebook conversation from a developer friend on that same topic. Here is that conversation w/ names removed. Bottom line - mixed reviews. What do other people think?

Person 1: "I've found Google Chrome to be rather buggy (caching outdated content, freezing) but fast so far. Are you having problems as well?"

Person 2: "yah, i had a lot of problems, so i stopped using it. needs work."

Person 3: "I use it at work on my PC and *love* it. Never had any issues with it. It's ok on my Mac too..."

Person 4: "I'm using it as my main browser on my work Mac and find very stable & fast. It's especially good for gmail/gsites/gdocs, which we use quite a bit. There's a few sites it doesn't like so firefox is never too far away."

Person 2: "it makes me wonder why some have no issues and others, like myself, do. it crashed every few minutes, for me, and froze like crazy, lol. haven't tried it on the Mac. i'll give it a go there."

Person 5: "It's very stable on *nix (debian). I find Opera to be faster though. At this stage, I have 4 or 5 browsers, and bookmarks scattered across all of them."

Person 6: "Much faster than FF (browsing, opening and closing), I used it on Mac as my main browser until this morning - for some reason I was not able to log on to our Intranet anymore, although FF still gets in without any problems... Too lazy to troubleshoot for the 4 remaining days..."

Person 7: "it has trouble with gmail.... now that is ironic!"

Person 8: "using it for almost a year on various PCs, never had any problems with freezing or outdated content. There are a few issues with sites that won't recogonize it as a valid browser, and on some machines it won't open PDF documents. But it's so much better than all the other browsers that I use it 90% of the time."

Person 9: "I use several different browsers and I like Chrome a lot. There are a few (very few) websites I can't access when using it... and I thought it was ironic that Gears doesn't work in it - except now I know Google's given up on Gears ... but all in all I find it to be the fastest browser that can handle the most open windows/tabs. I even like the skins (grin)."