i agree to that i found the first versions of chrome were very fast but after a while it did slow down but i always have to have about 30 tabs open that may be why, but i switched back to firefox as i can have that many tabs opne without noiticable slowdown
i find it quite funny how much google are advertising chrome, i can only speak from an english point of view, but the've put it in the papers and on tv, even on billboards, never seen anyone advertise a browser so much before, but i suppose microsoft didnt need to and google is the only other company with an internet browser that is also loaded with cash