One thing fails to make sense to me.
Why do people use chrome inspite of all the issues??

@dedcde ram hogging
Google etc etc

Its the devtools. When I jumped ship from firefox, firebug was lacking features and its own devtools was crappy.

Also, Chromecast Support

Devtools and speed. I have 16GB RAM.

Cross device support for history, bookmarks etc

Google account lol. And Google docs drive etc just works better. And CSS support amd HTML support.

-Speed
-Devtools
-Feature support

Wow! I envy you guys.. My company issued dev machine got 4gb only...(Windows, of course)
Nonetheless, +1 for Chrome, for the dev tool

Main reason I use chrome is that I use android smartphone. Synchronisation is a key to me.

It doesn't need Adobe Flash Player!!!!

I like the icon. Okay that was Firefox.

@party101 that is not an issue.

Guys, you have only 2 choices:
- use more RAM and use less CPU
- use more CPU and less RAM

You have to find a good balance between them but first choice is usually better because it is faster most of the time.

The only reason I use it is because of the cross-platform syncing. I would probably use ff more but it buggy as fuck on my Mac

I have an 8GB RAM in my laptop. Till date I have had absolutely zero RAM-related issues with Chrome. This is with a totally abnormal usage pattern of 100+ tabs open a lot of the time. The only time Windows has ever gone ker-bonk on me was when I tried opening two instances of Android Studio on top of 70+ Chrome tabs (and a whole horde of other shit that was already running), and that was mostly Studio's fault.

The problem I've noticed with my complaining friends is that they open Task Manager and stare at resource consumption meters and go like "Oh look at Chrome it's eating all my RAM" when their system isn't really slowing down at all. From what I can see it looks like Chrome just preallocates as much RAM as it can so that it doesn't stutter later. I've found it happily gives RAM up when needed by other processes.

@Mindstormer619 agree, that's only an impression of usage.