I remember back in the day when Mozilla.org took Netscape Navigator and turned it into FireFox... At the time, FF was the fastest, least bloated, feature rich browser you could get. I have found that in recent years that FireFox has become bloated and slow.
I am curious as to your assertion to Chrome's security. Could you provide me with an explanation and references?
I don't actually believe that chrome is flawed security wise. I simply recently saw them (Google) pop on the news a lot about their way of dealing with peoples data. I read a few articles about them being fined numerous times because of some privacy issues and how they didn't deal with it.
I also read an article about how they used cookies in Safari to track people so they can more effectively aim adds at those people. If I remember correctly (never used a mac) Safari belongs to Apple and is used on most Apple macs. So they were fined something like $20million (which is pocket change for them obviously).
On top of that they combined all user data from their different services, and apparently they never told their users about this intend and nor have they mentioned how this data will be used.
I don't personally have a problem with them per say, but I just don't like how they deal with all this. Loosing in court and having to pay fine says you've done something wrong. Loosing court and paying fines 3 times just shows they're stubborn about how they go on about privacy and user data.
It's like I said, its out of principle I'm not using chrome, I do miss it's performance, as it is noticeable between FF and Chrome, but the fact that Firefox's extensions work so much better makes it worth it. I do intend to start using Chrome again down the line when it looks like Google is taking the privacy issues seriously and doing something about it, instead of just being stubborn and happy with just paying the fines.
EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not a privacy paranoid person. I simply don't like their "just pay the fines so we can move on" attitude. In all I have read about this, there was no explanation from Google to why they made no improvements and allowed them selves to be taken to court and fined 3 times regarding user privacy and user and data. However, I did not do any research in this, so I could be mistaken about a few things or missing some information.