I consider myself a geek but a poor one given the current circumstances. My old laptop with its gig of memory was always running over and above the physically installed memory when I used to run IE or FF(multiple instances - taps and separate instances). Another thing was that they would always be memory creeps where a single instance would go on taking upto 300 MB of memory if left on its own for a week - Which I normally do and the only way for me to recover memory was to kill all the IE or FF instances. Then came chrome and I sort of fell in love with its design - it does an excellent job of keep every thing in order - atleast for me. If I kill an instance of chrome I get that much memory back and I havent seen memory creeps I was so fimilar with when I used to use IE and FF. So Kudos to google for doing a good job - for me at the moment performance is the key and I careful enough not to click every url I see out there. But yes it does need more support for add on etc.