This test cannot be very thorough for the main reason that Chrome For Linux does not support Flash yet.
[Edit] Thx to Ben. Flash is not activated out of the box. However, you can activate it fairly easily. See the paragraph about Flash below.

Chrome is supposed to make the net “faster, safer, easier”. Let’s see.

Faster
There is definitely a feeling of fastness. Pages load smoothly and rapidly. There is no freeze (unlike in my FF) which is appreciable. However, when I used a beta version of FF without plugins* and without flash support, I also had this impression. So future will tell if it keeps being fast when loaded with plugins.

Safer
The incognito window is pretty useful when you want to look for things that can become nasty for instance “chrome 64 bits beta”. However, as told by Chrome, there is no such window where you could surf anonymously on the web.

Here is what Chrome says when you open an incognito window:
You’ve gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.

• Internet service providers or employers that track the pages you visit
• Malicious software that tracks your keystrokes in exchange for free smileys
• Surveillance by secret agents
• People standing behind you
  

By the way I do not want to sound paranoid but by “Surveillance by secret agents” is Google telling us that they are forced to spy on us by some intelligence agency ? Or is it just humor ?

Easier
The interface is indeed pretty simple. No menu bar, only contextual menus and 2 buttons on the right of the address bar that display an edit and history menu. Incognito mode is simply launched by pressing maj+ctrl+n or by using the history button.
[Edit] One simple thing I love is that when you open a link “in a new tab” the new tab is just on the right of the tab you were in, unlike on Firefox where the new tab is on the far right of your tabs. This has been feeding up me for a while.

Yet we’ll judge about easiness when it will come to look for and to integrate plugins.

About bugs
On the bad side, this website is not well displayed. For some reason the images in the articles appear completely distorted. I hope this will be quickly corrected. I will need to check if the same happens on Chrome on Windows.

[Edit]
About Flash
To activate Flash you need to do the following (thx to Ben and Linux archive):

$ sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins
$ cd /opt/google/chrome/plugins
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so
$ cd /opt/google/chrome/
$ google-chrome --enable-plugins

You might not need the 3 first steps. Try first to launch chrome with the option --enable-plugins to see if it works. Also, your directory with the flash plugin might be different. Mine was in “/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer”.

I have tested flash on Google analytics and on YouTube (2 Google sites btw but it was not on purpose). It worked well and without crash.

* I am using google toolbar and webdevelopper plugins