Personally I’m not exactly blown away by the browser, its an interesting piece of software but I’ll be sticking with Firefox for some time yet.
Really well researched article goes through Googles lead up to releasing the browser:
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrome.html
Lifehacker’s summary of Chrome’s hidden “about:” pages:
http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chromes-full-list-of-special-about-pages
Or Google’s http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chromes-about-pages.html
Lifehacker article goes through Firefox plugins to enable some similar functionallity [...]