So I was just browsing away on my PC last night around 2am, trying to be quiet about it (totally a Ctrl+Shift+N moment), and every time I scrolled down the page using the scrollbar on the side of the window, my graphics card fan speed increased as if there was a hugely increased load (the sort of speed it gets to when playing a game for a while). If I use the mouse scroll wheel however, nothing happened.

Innnteresssting.

it reached its heat ceiling then cooled itself down?

Azn you made me LOL (after realising what Ctrl+Shift+n did on google chrome) .

Pfft, my chrome automatically starts in incognito

I have noticed chrome to actually load slower than FF, especially when tabbing a lot, it doesn't render the pages when you're no looking at them.

My Firefox takes approx 10 seconds from double-clicking the icon on the desktop to open. Chrome takes <1 second and is faster at basically everything.

Update: and my PC eats other PCs for breakfast, for powar!

Mine take the same to open, and firefox actually allows me to browse faster because of what I said above.

That's crazy. Tabbing in Chrome is a lot faster than Firefox for me.
I think the 3.5 update slowed things down a lot for me. I don't use plugins.

I just find there's page rendering lag on on chrome when I tab, which is annoying.

Chrome remains a mystery IMO.

Installation file size?

Scrollbars stress graphics chips?

Google know everything you're browsing?

I used chrome and loved it. but i downloaded a patch for a game once and it wasnt a clickable file to install on my destop. I downloaded it through firefox as my defoult browser and it worked like normal. from this day forth, FF was the way