I develop on Chrome all day every day and I cannot relate at all to these people saying it is full of bugs and crashing all the time. Nor do I find that Firefox is faster.
Chrome dev tools are still the best in the business, and Chrome just works.
Also I did a memory usage comparison on Chrome and Firefox 2 months ago and Firefox was using more memory by quite a bit (and got worse the more tabs you had open.) And this was Firefox with NO Flash and Chrome with Flash.
This is the first comment I've read so far that I 100% agree with.
I personally see no reason to keep more than 8-10 tabs open at a given time which doesn't affect my CPU performance whatsoever (running a "standard" dev machine of 12GB+ RAM, i7, etc) so I could care less if FF handles 40 tabs better.
And quickly, some reasons I love Chrome (& Google):
- Accessible nightly builds (Canary)
- AngularJS debug extension
- Built-in bookmark/history/search sync (read something at home yesterday - can easily find it in my history at work or on mobile)
I generally will have anywhere from 12-50 tabs open in Chrome, and have no problems whatsoever. I suspect that Chrome isn't actually the problem for these people complaining about it.
With all the recent audio work chrome was unusable for many sites with flash audio playback. The problem persisted for months. There was one were whole tags of content would disappear due to a gpu bug. Unplugging headphones while the browser was focused would crash it. I find it amazing you haven't seen one in the past 6 months. Everyone I know has encountered some sort of problem
Chrome dev tools are still the best in the business, and Chrome just works.
Also I did a memory usage comparison on Chrome and Firefox 2 months ago and Firefox was using more memory by quite a bit (and got worse the more tabs you had open.) And this was Firefox with NO Flash and Chrome with Flash.