Oddness. I just opened Chrome and hit CTRL+O.
The open file dialog popped up. I selected a .txt file and it opened it in Chrome.
Assuming people know basic things about computers like the standard CTRL shortcuts shared by all pretty much all programs (or looked it up in Firefox/IE

), it should not pose any challenge to open files in Chrome.
...
I see there is no menu option to do so, though (and Firefox/IE does). This was news to me, since the last time I bothered to go to the menu and look for how to open files/new tabs/new windows/stuff like that, was probably when I was ten. It was definitely a long time ago, I know that much.
So... you're both wrong.