Goes WAYYYYY slower then FF. I thought it might have been a cache issue, so I loaded my web page a few times in a row in Chrome.
Well, that's not the typical experience people have with Chrome. If it was, they wouldn't be using it ... it's just that simple. I have Chrome and Firefox installed on my notebook PC. I have no inclination to defend Chrome. I've mainly used Firefox for the last two years or longer. In the last 2 or 3 months, I've been using Chrome - and Opera on another computer - just to get familiar with them in anticipation of a discussion on browsers as a topic at a monthly meeting of a computer users' group to which I belong. Believe me, my use of Chrome would have ended quickly if it were noticeably slower than Firefox, but it isn't. I find it generally quite responsive and definitely not slower than Firefox.
I have no idea why Chrome generates instances of tasks in Task Manager each time an additional tab is opened unless it's a technique that's they found improves speed. But, based on my observation, the sum of the CPU usage shown in Task Manager for Chrome is not greater than what Firefox uses to display the same websites. So, I don't see this as a serious negative point regarding Chrome.