I've used firefox for many years now and recently tried chrome for a while. Yes it's a fast browser but apart from the speed I could see no benefit to using it over firefox. In fact I lost more than I gained by changing to Chrome.
Whenever I ask people why they are using Chrome over ff I just get the same answer, "it's fast". If I ask what else they start to struggle, maybe tossing out the private mode in desperation. Just recently i've installed firefox 3.5RC2 and i've been really impressed by the speed increase. I would say now it's pretty close to chromes speed and that's with a dozen or so plugins installed. Chrome probably still has the edge in the speed department but only by much smaller margin.
So in light of this is there any benefit to using Chrome over ff? When I think of all the power I would lose by moving over to chrome in terms of lost plugin support for a millisecond of speed increase I don't see any advantage but I do see many disadvantages.
I'll just finish by posted a link to an article comparing memory consumption between browsers. In summery firefox 3.5 has the best memory usage of all the browsers tested and, shock horror, google chrome is the worst. During peak browser usage FF3.5 used 73% less memory than chrome with chrome using 1.18 gigabytes compared to FF 327.65 megabytes of memory!
Suddenly that millisecond of extra speed doesn't seem very important.
http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory
Anyway enough about chrome. I have noticed one little annoyance with roboform and FF3.5RC2. If I open two different firefox windows and drag a tab between them the full roboform top bar doesn't open up, I just get a roboform toolbar button and a close button. I have to click the roboform button to make the full bar appear with safenotes, logins etc. I've emailed roboform support about this but it's like banging my head against the wall, it's like they just don't read the email.
