I gave up on Chrome, at least under Linux. I was willing to live with the irritations if the performance was going to be better, but it got to the point where Chrome would consume as many resources as Firefox, albeit split between many processes instead of just one, at which point it would become flakier than Firefox ever was. The separate processes might have been a benefit if it were possible to figure out which pieces were associated with which processes, but I couldn't find a way to do that.

Anyway, back to Firefox for now. I'll try again after a few versions have passed.