[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.