I continue to read (in techno-geeky threads like this one) about how Google Chrome will never make it because it has so many problems.  Such views are short sighted.

As I have written elsewhere, Chrome is disruptive technology:
http://faseidl.com/public/item/212172

The fact that Chrome has vulnerabilities, bugs, missing features, etc., that make it a poor choice as a mainstream, commercial browser is not a deal breaker... IF Google can keep the rate of improvement in Chrome high.

Disruptive technologies nearly always start life as an *inferior* solutions in mainstream markets BUT as an attractive solutions for fringe markets that provide the user base that drives improvement. If the slope of the improvement trajectory is steeper than that of mainstream solutions, a new technology is able to catch and surpass (and thus, disrupt) a mainstream solution.

Look at Google's ability to grab attention. (Consider all of us, simply because Google releases a browser, spending countless hours rehashing the news.) If Google can grab a few million users (which they can), and if Google can compete technically with the long-in-the-tooth-bloated-and-buggy code base of IE (which they can), Chrome stands a good chance of becoming a significant player in mainstream markets.

Chrome will not "kill" IE, nor will IE squash the Chrome. Chrome will likely change the browser landscape... and it might significantly change it.