actually i agree that chrome is minimalistic, which is paradoxically precisely what i like about it and *also* exactly what has prevented me from making it my main browser so far (i know, i'm crazy.
). i like it for "casual" browsing sessions because it seems very lightweight to me, even the graphism with the flat colours that remind me of card divider tabs seems less massive. and i like the flexibility of being able to drag tabs all over the place as it suits me, because i am fairly OC about keeping my (numerous) browser windows sorted and organised.
on the other hand, when it crashes, there's no "restore session" function to get back all the (multiple) windows you have open previously (that i've found, anyway, despite the fact that it can save a session when you shut it down, and it will remember individual windows in the history, and allow you to restore them), and it's missing most if not all of the features i use in firefox for work and organisation (and fun. mozilla powerturtle, anyone ? bork bork bork ?). it makes a good secondary browser though, i think. and it seems not to drain too much memory, so i can keep it open alongside whatever other browsers / apps i'm using more intensively, for my entertainment purposes.