For what it’s worth, I’ve switched back to Firefox myself, after a long “affair” with Chrome.
The latest stable version is just as fast as Chrome, if not faster, in everything I do. The extensions are miles ahead of what Google allows, the memory consumption is lower… Everything Chrome does these days, Firefox does just as well.
Chrome is starting to feel a bit “big brotherish”, if you know what I mean. I want videos from Youtube… Wait, I can’t get them, cause Google does not allow it. An addon to stop the Google redirect… Google does not allow it. Multi threaded download addon… Can’t have it, cause Google has been ignoring users for two years on this issue.
Firefox is the “no holds barred” experience these days.