I guess this is where I was trying to go with. If you use it for a workstation there is no reason why firefox couldn't do the necessary to get you through. At work we use RHEL for workstations and thats because it's on the "approved" list. At home I run Fedora and only apply security updates when needed. Even then it's still a billion times better than having to deal with Winblowz.

It's one thing having minimum X libraries to be able to do X11 Forwarding and another having them boot into init 5. I am sure there are use cases where X is required but worrying about chrome on RHEL doesn't bother me one bit.

That's exactly what I thought when I first read this post. Why do we even care. You shouldn't need anything GUI based on a server. RHEL shines in server environments and although you could use it as a workstation why even bother, definitely go the Fedora route for workstations and desktops.