There is no doubt that Google Chrome is fast at rendering web pages, also Chrome has a feature that I'm sure kids in multi-user environments love: You can install it to your profile, and it doesn't require administrative privileges. This is nice if the only browser you are allowed to have is Internet Explorer. Unfortuantely this is the default way that it installs itself, which means it sucks when you are an administrator. Let me elaborate...
To install Chrome so every user of a computer can access it you have to first install "Google Updater" tools. Which is probably the worst thing that Google has ever produced. It is effictively malware, which creates two services running in the background that are not able to be disabled by the Google Updater front end. Also it creates a scheduled task that checks for updates, and what's worse is if you delete the scheduled task, the services that are running will re-create it, over and over and over. So once you have Google Updater installed you can then install Chrome. It puts it in the "Program Files" directory and any user of the computer can launch it, unfortuantely you have just infected your system with terrible software. On the upside you CAN uninstall the updater tools, and it will leave Chrome on your computer, but that's another installation step, and at some point you have to realize it's not worth it.
Anwyays, after Chrome is installed the first person that used it on the machine I installed it on reported that the browser locked up the computer while trying to import the settings from Firefox. I'm not sure what the actual cause was but it was another headache for the system administrators.
Google Chrome, you are not yet ready for the big show. Get your act together and ditch the terrible updater software. Give us an option to install for all users or in our profiles with the standalone installer! I like some things about Chrome, but it has yet to make me stop using Firefox.
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