The Downloads tab shows you a history of your downloads by date, including the name of the file you downloaded, the URL where it was downloaded from, and a link to show it in the Finder. There's even a search box to make it easier to find old downloads. While downloading, you see the filename, URL, download speed, Pause and Cancel buttons, and a green segmented-circle progress indicator. Although non-standard, I found the progress indicator pleasing to my eye and easy to understand.

Chromium doesn't have a status bar at the bottom of the window, a la Firefox and Safari (where it's disabled by default). Instead, when you hover over a link on a page, the link's destination appears at the bottom of the window, where the status bar would normally be seen. When you move the mouse away, the link destination vanishes, freeing that space to again show web page content.

This early build of Chromium already supports Chrome's , which is akin to Safari's Private Browsing mode, except it can be used on a window-by-window basis. Pages opened and files downloaded in an Incognito Mode window won't be tracked, and any newly-created cookies are deleted when the Incognito Mode window is closed. Being able to mix private mode and general browsing (by opening a new, normal window next to the Incognito Mode window) is a step forward from Safari's all-or-nothing privacy mode.

Finally, developers will appreciate the very clean code view--Chromium formats the page's source code (again this is displayed on a tab), and color-codes the HTML; both of these things make it very easy to see how a certain page is put together.