Firefox is sloooowly letting me down...

I've been using Firefox for as long as it is been called "Firefox" and I was really enjoying it as a fast and comfortable browser.
 
As of version 3 however, I am getting more and more annoyed with the decrease in speed and the increase in sheer amount of memory it occupies. Using only a few addons (Adblock Plus, Always on Top, DownThemAll!, IE Tab 2 and Modify Headers) I feel that Firefox uses a far too big part of my 8 gigs of memory... sometimes even freezing and forcing me to close it via task manager. Granted, I usually use many tabs and several instances of the browser, watching videos and browsing at the same time. But I think it may be the time to settle over to Chrome.
 
Do you guys have any experience with Chrome? Is the Chrome adaption of Adblock Plus (Praise the creators of that masterpiece!) as good as its role model? How about google's collection of personal data? I am usually far from paranoid, but you never know... 
 

Chrome was good for me for a long while, though, not to hijack the thread, I recently updated it and I think something went wrong as it tends to now go incredibly slow and cripple my system after a few hours and, to fix it, I have to close it all and start again. Any ideas what I can do to fix this? I'm a Mac user, in case you hadn't guessed from my all-round coolness.

I am in the same boat as you. Really interested to see if Chrome may be the way for us to go.

I'm just disappointed because the tab tearing glitch came back when I updated to the latest version. The hell, Firefox? Why do I need my tabs in more windows? Isn't that why I have tabs in the first place? Because they're easier to manage than windows?

Yeah, firefox feels a little slow these days. I'm not going to change though. I'm far too comfortable with it.

Chrome has been better than FF for at least 2 years now. All of the relevant add-ons are present at the same quality or better, and it has quite a few good exclusive ones as well.  
 
The whole "google collecting your personal info" thing is nonsense, it arose when someone found out the browser queries google's servers when you type something into the address bar, but this turned out to be just google's "autosuggest" feature and nothing nefarious. 

" I am in the same boat as you. Really interested to see if Chrome may be the way for us to go. "

I made the switch from Firefox to Chrome a few months back, and I love it. It's so much quicker and simpler. 
 
Although if you're not willing to make the jump to Chrome, are you using the Firefox 4 RC? Apparently it's a big improvement over 3.6, although I haven't used it myself.

I switched to chrome because it's a lesser of two evil. Chrome has a metric crap ton of annoying problems when it comes to just doing little everyday things, but it runs smoother so I keep using it. I miss having an adblocker that actually blocks ads, and several smaller addon's that just made doing a lot of stuff I do online easier. 

As far as I know, Chrome doesn't have an equivalent of fast dial, or fastest fox, so no dice for me. But no, I haven't noticed any particular problems with firefox recently, although it is a tad slow for my liking.

Very happy Chrome user here. Check out the web store for cool apps like Tweetdeck for Chrome and the slick NY Times app.

Switch to Chrome and just never look back. That's what I did and it's awesome.

I have all three browsers installed, Firefox 4 is really nice, but I still stick with Chrome and only keep the other two around when I have some sort of problem using Chrome, which rarely happens. 
I used to be a Firefox guy, but Chrome won me over.

" As far as I know, Chrome doesn't have an equivalent of fast dial, or fastest fox, so no dice for me. But no, I haven't noticed any particular problems with firefox recently, although it is a tad slow for my liking. "

I was never into Firefox. I stuck with IE then switched to Chrome. 
I fucking love Chrome; Their extensions are awesome.

I've always loved Firefox, but version 3 was getting annoying as hell. It was too slow and used up way too much memory (1+ Gb). Tried Chrome for a while, but didn't really like it. I switched over to FF 4 when it was in its early beta stage, and it was quite poor. Running FF 4 RC now though, and it's pretty much perfect. So much faster than FF 3, and all of my addons have been updated to work with it. So I'm still a Firefox guy.

Random freeze yes, memory, well I have never used more then 4 out 6 GB, and that is while playing two games.
I will give it one more chance (firefox 4), not sure I want chrome either, FF has a couple of addons I really like!

Was a long time Firefox user but I gave Chrome a shot and have never gone back. You can't hide that Chrome tops all of the speed benchmarks and it's just a sexy, clean browser. The omni-bar is also incredibly simple and useful and works awesome.

Firefox on Windows 7 was a nightmare for me, so I switched to chrome. 
 
It would just randomly freeze for a minute or so, very troublesome.

Yeah it seems with that new version of Firefox, it has really slowed down for me as well.  Whereas Chrome is consistently blazingly fast.  I still keep Firefox installed, and updated though.  I just think the Firefox team is going through a rough patch of development.  But it doesn't currently deserve Default Browser status.

chrome is awesome. I love it.

I've noticed Firefox being a bit slower too, but either I don't notice it anymore or it fixed itself somehow.

  maybe it's time for you to try other browser, I recommend you to try IE9.

Once I left FF for Chrome, I haven't looked back. Also Chrome is constantly being updated with new features and keeping it as fast as it can be. Also you never have to see any actual updating, it's all done under the hood.

This thread has made me switch to Chrome. I can never open Firefox because it tells me it's running, but not responding. On both PC and Mac. It's broken. Bad.

Not sure why Firefox became just a sluggish browser but I dropped it like a bad habit last year. Chrome is quite possibly the best browser I've ever used, it's incredibly smooth and I like the sleek minimalist interface. In fact I haven't bothered with many extensions since switching to it.

Any recommendations on what addons to get for Chrome?

Bump! 
I am especially interested in an addon which prevents Chrome from opening any new windows at all. I don't ever want to see a separate instance of Chrome for partypoker.com again...

Chrome or bust. 
 
I used Firefox for years and switched about six months ago. I'll never go back. Chrome is above and beyond.

Firefox is easily one of the most dated browers right now. IE 9 just came out today and it is 20 times better then firefox, but I still like chrome better. You cannot go wrong with either of those. 

Chrome is also really handy if you dual-boot between two operating systems. It's interface is very platform agnostic.

Im loving chrome, firefox had its time. 

" I am in the same boat as you. Really interested to see if Chrome may be the way for us to go. "

Firefox is a clunky, slow-moving mess anymore. Chrome and IE9 have my browsing needs completely filled, and I don't really wait for websites to open anymore. 
 
@Newten: I've been using IE9 since the release and haven't had a single problem with any of the WM sites.

I use FF and Chrome evenly.  For general browsing I use Chrome but for downloading and similar tasks I still prefer FF.  As for speed, well FF 4 is supposed to be released soon I hear. 

I like Firefox's plugins, but lately I'm finding it eating up more and more memory the longer I have it up... I have to close it and restart it to get rid of some sort of memory leak :/.

Quake Live is now compatible with Google Chrome. 
 
I will never look back, Firefox.

I changed form Firefox to Chrome a while back and I found it a lot better. That was until I start beta testing Firefox 4 which I have found to be faster and a lot more stable than Chrome. However I am running on Mac so it's different but overall I still stick with Mozilla.

I like Firefox

Nope sticking with FF, AdblockerPlus works 1000% times better on FF I haven't seen video/popup/sidebar ads in over a year, every time I hop on Chrome to much stuff gets through, I have been unaware of how badly the internet ad campaign has gotten so I am going to continue avoid being aware for as long as I can. And no I have not experienced the slowness/hitching that many have been reporting, but with 12GBs of DD3 it better fucking not....

My mum got a new Macbook the other day. She asked me to download Firefox for her, since we've been using it for years. I downloaded Chrome instead, just to see what's up, and hated it.

I used to use Internet Explorer, then I switched to Chrome. Needless to say I noticed a massive difference. I suggest you try it too... it's so neat and tidy and along with my ObjectDock Plus 2, there is no taskbar on the bottom so basically the whole screen (minus bookmarks, address bar and tabs - not much at all) is web-viewing heaven.

Firefox versions 3.5 or whatever and below kept crashing on me. Version 4 RC has been working pretty well so far. I'm liking its likeness to Chrome.

I used ff for years and switched to chrome awhile ago.  Just do it.  All the shitty addons don't compare to the speed and stability of chrome.  

same here. i like firefox, but i'm probably going to switch to chrome soon.