Indeed, I must have had a mental aberration when I wrote that
Pc Pro have a review of Chrome this month and it is very fast, 3 times faster than FireFox and 23 times faster than IE7 (java script handling is brilliantly executed apparently) However I run the beta of FF3.1 and that is faster than FF3 so that speed edge may well disappear in the near future.
Google of course only do things that will make Google money (1.25 billion profit in Q2 this year) so it will, I'm sure, be acting as a benign trojan horse to channel your efforts into making money for them.