Sure, the existence of chrome will increase web developers testing workload... I doubt it. Chrome doesn't have to displace too many IE users before it becomes

Sure, the existence of chrome will increase web developers testing workload... I doubt it. Chrome doesn't have to displace too many IE users before it becomes a net win. If it accelerates the obsolescence of IE by a single fortnight, I'll gain fourteen days of happiness. I have a site that I'm working on that uses a bunch of Javascript. I just made the mistake of loading it in IE7 first thing in the morning, which has pretty much ensured that the rest of my day will be stressful and miserable. There's a page on there that loads in a couple of seconds in Safari, and a couple of seconds in Firefox (provided you keep Firebug off) but which takes -- I kid you not -- twenty seconds in IE7, for god knows what reason. You can practically hear the hamsters spinning around in their rusty little wheels. Your post inspired me to install Chrome. In Chrome, the JS initializes faster than I can see. It brings tears to my eyes. I am still going to spend orders of magnitude more time testing sites in IE than in Chrome. That's partly because I will literally spend an order of magnitude more time waiting for my JS to initialize. Then, when I look for bloat and bugs in IE, I will always find them, and they take forever to work around, and that work has to be done by a coder.