Ok, I see those numbers. I can comprehend them. I understand that Firefox may be technically "faster," but at what cost? I'd like to see a benchmark that measures UI responsiveness. Because, I don't know about you, but I'm OK with sacrificing a few milliseconds of rendering speeds if it means that I get a faster, responsive UI.
As a test, I ran the Kraken javascript benchmark on Chrome 12.0.712.0 with extensions and about 10 tabs open and a clean install of Firefox 4.0 with a single tab open. I was still able to load new tabs and browse to other sites smoothly on Chrome, whereas Firefox began behaving extremely sluggishly. Because of this, Chrome felt like it was going faster even when Firefox completed the benchmark about 100ms faster. Isn't that all that really matters? If I feel like my browser is going faster than another, then I don't care that it's actually going slower, and I doubt that most other users would care either.