[andrewla]

The sticking points for me are just the integration of Google services into Chrome itself.

I should be able to log into a website (say Google Docs) and have the browser be blissfully unaware of the semantics of being "logged in". It should do all the cookies and local storage necessary for this, but under no circumstances should this be part of the browser UI itself.

The side panel for "google search results" is worse in some ways, better in some. It's an optional feature, so that's better. But it does not allow you to disable the functionality. If people love it, sure, I don't mind Chrome adding support, but I should not have to have a non-removable "side panel" button in the main browser chrome.

The rest of the complaints here don't really bother me. Third-party cookie blocking by default would be great, but you can enable it now and I've been doing that for ages anyway, even though it sometimes breaks things.