I suspect that for the average internet surfer, the speed of Chrome will be a major draw. What else is really important if all you want to do is jump around from site to site. Personally though, I love my add ons, so I'm sticking with Firefox for now. I'm too used to instant gratification if I want to know things like PR or Alexa rank.
Separate processes doe not increase google chrome's speed. This has been developed for stability so that each tab has its own process. If one website is having problems it does not bring down the browser so that you lose all your work in other tabs. Notice I said work, google have the approach that we are no longer using the browser to look at web sites. In this way, it is now more of a problem for us if our browser crashes. Separate processes has nothing at all to do with speed
It's fast because the code was written to be efficient. The separate process doesn't effect speed. It's a way to isolate each window so that if one window crashes it doesn't crash the other windows.
I completely agree, programming wise, separate processes mean more system resources not faster performance. I think it's fast because of a good written code and it's basic just like removing all the plug-ins out of FireFox - which is not a good thing btw - and for the one site crashes all thing, FireFox did a great job on that by restoring crashed sessions - optionally - when you re-open the browser, and you don't even have to log-on the crashed sites again.
is there any addons on Google chrome? for me, Google chrome is too simple. Still prefer Firefox at this time for the main browser.