With regards to your point on the red ‘x’ button, I know that – for me, at least – I don’t associate closing an application with a red ‘x’ – I associate it with the top-right-most button in that application. There’s also the fact that if you hover over the close button it turns red.

I really like the fact that address bar is under the tabbar. It just seems more correct. But the whole thing is definitely still a beta.

Very good points as to Chrome. My own biggest peeve is the current Bookmarking functionality and user flow; I find it hard to believe that the powers-that-be at Google did not simply mimic FF or IE7 browser-based bookmarking features for this Beta launch. There is no need to break this convention if breaking it offers no real benefit (and in fact, more detriment than benefit).

However, on a tangent, I would really have to dispute that: “youâ��ll find that many people in the field of user experience favor Mac.” At least on this side of the pond (in Canada), I know of zero UX Professionals/IAs/Interaction Designers who work primarily in Mac. For example, an established and extremely powerful Usability Test tool like TechSmith’s Morae (http://www.techsmith.com/morae/systemreq.asp) has not been launched in Mac. I find that telling.

It just smacks to me as yet more Microsoft and Vista bashing. Sure they’ve ripped off so many of Apple’s GUI elements, but it doesn’t mean that UX Professionals wouldn’t be using it without complaining every day.

Anyway I wanted to highlight the nightmare that is the downloads window, it is hard to find and all the ‘downloaded file’ options are hidden in the right click context window. And my real issue; I’m downloading a file but no longer want to use the browser so I close it and guess what happened, the file download was cancelled. Opps. Beta or not that was annoying and against the ‘norm’ for browsers now a days.