Chrome just doesn't handle tabs as well as Firefox, does it?

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Well, first of all it creates a process for each different tab (or URL)... that supposedly makes it efficient, but it uses FAR more memory than Firefox with an equivalent amount of tabs uses. Secondly, after a certain amount all the favicons disappear, making it impossible to go to different tabs without hovering over to see what they are first.

Chrome is overrated and far less optimized than Firefox. Loading a page with animated GIFs will bring it to its knees. Firefox is much more efficient.

I think Firefox catching up (and now completely overtaking) chrome/chromium in performance is a recent thing. Chromium just seems to be going slower than other browsers.. Midori, Firefox, Arora, etc.

My theory on browsers is there is no univerally good browser. Firefox seems to work a lot better on many sites and not getting things wrong and having the best privacy features. Chromium has the better sandboxing features but is getting slower, Opera works really well and is good for slow connections and is nice and fast but has no sandboxing I know of (at least when i used it last).

So chromium for security, Firefox for privacy, Opera for slow connections, Midori for raw speed, but none that is as good as eachother for their respective best use.

Lynx or Dillo are great for serving up raw text or finding technical docs / how to's.

Chrome totally pwns Firefox. Except for the freaking spyware that Google loads into it. A page of animated GIFs load very fast for me in Chrome. I do keep Chrome clean through with no plugins installed. I use it mostly whenever I have a problem loading a page in Safari.

Clearly your page is not big enough. And when it's big enough, try scrolling up and down and see how choppily the GIFs play compared to Firefox.