Could I live without it? Sure. In that way it's probably a little over the top.
As many replies to your comment suggest, the user experience is pretty great. However, in my opinion, OP was probably referring to the awesome performance of V8 (the Javascript "engine" under the hood). Chrome has become my defacto recommendation to anyone who uses Javascript-heavy web apps.
There's also a nice set of developer utilities for Chrome that make it a very useful tool when developing web applications. Perhaps he's suggesting that, as a tool, he finds it indispensable?
As many replies to your comment suggest, the user experience is pretty great. However, in my opinion, OP was probably referring to the awesome performance of V8 (the Javascript "engine" under the hood). Chrome has become my defacto recommendation to anyone who uses Javascript-heavy web apps. There's also a nice set of developer utilities for Chrome that make it a very useful tool when developing web applications. Perhaps he's suggesting that, as a tool, he finds it indispensable?