Ever the contrarian, I am decidedly in favor of the new Omnibox URL hiding in @googlechrome canary. The reaction to this seems overblown.
@googlechrome Just can't use a browser that hangs repeatedly on startup. Need to spend time getting stuff done, not force-quitting.
@googlechrome I'm on my way back to Firefox. Had a blast while it lasted though. Sad to lose the Android coolness.