[ch0wn]

> Mostly because of Chrome's feature creep.

I think I'm actually quite sensitive to that, but haven't felt about Chrome that way yet. Could you explain what features you mean in particular?

[azakai]

Some things Chrome includes that other browsers do not: Pepper, Native Client, Chrome Web Store, WebSQL (Safari might have that one too), a native PDF viewer, SwiftShader, etc.

(People of course disagree on which of those are bad and which are good.)

[jvm]

Isn't WebSQL supposed to be replaced by IndexedDB?(which FF has btw)

[azakai]

Yes. Google hasn't removed it yet though (apparently some Google properties use it, so there is a conflict of interest here with web standards).

[jvm]

Of course, web standards don't oblige browsers to not have features that aren't in the standard (it would be a harsh world if they did!).

[cicloid]

Flash

[azakai]

Ah, I forgot that, thanks!

[nnethercote]

Don't forget Dart!

[azakai]

It's only in the Dartium branch so far, I believe - not in trunk Chromium or release Chrome. But yes, it's another controversial feature that Google is planning to bundle.

[89a]

Isn't the native PDF viewer to protect windows users from themselves

[cicloid]

Besides the reply to your comment. Anecdotally I could tell you that some months ago, Chrome felt much faster at loading.

And I'm talking about barebones Chrome. Sometimes using extensions or activating/deactivating some flags can hinder/improve the performance.

The only thing that keeps me here, is the extensions not available on Safari (my other favorite webkit browser).

But overall it seems more slow on launch (even on clean install).

[ch0wn]

Interesting. I can't really tell how fast Chrome starts up, because it's starts in the background when my desktop environment loads and I'm on an SSD. But that would in fact be a good indicator for bloat.