(19/05/2010 05:57 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  As long as it's free, who really cares if it's open source or not?

If IE was the best browser in the world, I'd use it, even though it's nowhere close to open source, and never will be.

FOSS hippies, or those who want to customize the browser, or those who like flexibility of FOSS software etc.  There are big debates about it out there, so I won't go there...

(19/05/2010 05:57 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  I can render this in 100 milliseconds.
No, I'm better, I can do it in 80 milliseconds.  >.>

People consider it on bigger and more complex webpages.  Javascript can severely slow things down for example.

(19/05/2010 05:57 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  Chrome also sends info on your web activities back to Google, or so I heard.

There's an unofficial build which doesn't do that from what I've heard.  Otherwise, each to their own.
Personally would never use it due to lack of features, but people have different tastes.

(19/05/2010 05:57 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  Is there any good reason to?  Because it's :effort: setting up an account and learning how to use the thing just for some one time assignment.  The time taken will probably > the time saved.  And if you really need real-time, just share your MSN.

tl;dr -  tell him he's a meatstick.

Pretty much is one of those tech enthusiasts, but if he's willing to do the work, I couldn't personally care less.