Now, if IE or Firefox present such a dialog, I know with the certainty of long habituation that clicking "OK" means saying good-bye to all of my open tabs. I usually observe a moment of silence before proceeding. It helps the healing process.But guess what happens when I click "OK" on the above dialog? Nothing. The dead tab is already closed, and Chrome doesn't skip a beat. I keep on browsing. Applying my applications. No mourning, no grief. Blip ... barely. That is nice.

You know what it took to turn "OK, please kill my productivity" into "OK, please stop interrupting me"? It took an entire bottom-up rewrite. That's a lot of work to make my life a little bit easier. I'm glad Google did that.

Now, I would be really paranoid about privacy if it weren't open source, and I'm still tempted to compile it myself (tip: delete rzl.dll). But I'll be reallyhappy when they add a Python virtual machine. Their server-side offering is Python-based. Firefox has toyed with the idea (right?), and Microsoft has an implementation. Hey, it could happen.