I like your long rant and am not here to debate YOU vs. Chrome. I just like Chrome and its elegance. Even the Dev channel releases (2-3 updates per week) and mostly solid.

YOU are great stable browser but Chrome is revolutionary kid on the block. Moreover me thinks that YOU are for average user, while Chrome is for nerds.

Its skinny and nice to compare that the amount of memory it consumes once you minus the googleupdate and per process overhead! Each tab or webpage is executed in separate process so basically you are consuming per process memory which can’t be less in any situation as compare to single process. A broken software is good to run in separate process space so ‘bugs’ wont destroy the whole app. To make it multithreaded takes more firefox source that will be done at some point.

Not to mention the heavy duty process switching that your CPU would be doing! Last but not least there are no ‘add-on-s’ you might have to wait for couple to months or years.

You are always welcome to firefox when you had enough.

I use Dev Channel releases which are updated weekly and are meant only for testing. If you are developer or techie, you might be interested in these early access releases available from http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel