Looks like they haven't updated Chrome to the new API as the benchmarks here still show it as significantly slower: http://octane-benchmark.googlecode.com/svn/latest/index.html

I agree about the Android market, but at least there are alternative sources like f-droid which usually have a selection of better apps.

I tried 'vnc viewer' and 'vnc client', neither of which worked too well. There are probably better ones if I would've kept looking