Chrome speeds up Javascript heavy apps like Google docs, Gmail and calendar massively with it's amazing built from scratch JRE.
It's not blue for me? I think it must match peoples desktop - so blue for XP systems maybe? Really looks at home on Vista. Not even a Google logo or title bar - which is nice. All you really get are tabs and lots of space for the webpage... which I suppose is the whole idea
I really don't know where my loyalties lie now. I have used Firefox for 6 years, since long before it was even called Firefox. But I also very loyal to Google. Google have made some of the most outstanding stuff in internet history. On merit basis, even though it's in beta - Chrome wins!