when chrome first cam out I gave it a try .. I to found it a bit slow with PDF and image files, so I abandoned it.
updated it yesterday after staring this thread .. seemed much faster and than I recall and significantly less of a resource hog than Firefox
late yesterday sat back down at the computer to give it more of a test drive and it (chrome) repeatedly crashed .. uninstalled and downloaded the latest version from a fresh start ... crash, crash crash, can't even get it to load the home page before it crashes "Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?" .. WTF?