Hey! This was a trick question.
*laughing*
Chrome, and most other Webkit x86 version browsers on our Window 8.1 (including Opera Next) respond like exotic sports cars, imho.
This is because they use more more gas (resources) yet even as they (seemingly) browse amazingly quick, they crash harder into walls, although I can neither get the lates 64 bit Chrome nor the x86 Chromium portable even started
inside of Sandboxie (for some reason..) yet.
Firefox is very smooth (specifically on our Windows 7),
though it stalls on our Windows 8.1,
hence the Cyberfox/Palemoon x64 portable browsers which both fill my 64 bit speed vacuum
even as they perform like reliable hybrids. Everything works except for phone calls on Google!
I liked that I was able to change my vote (twice!) and though I'm glad I can fall back on Chrome when I want simplicity, the pure functionality in Firefox along the speed of Cyberfox brought the vote back to Firefox/Gecko based browsers with, for now, the best of both worlds (for our unique systems)
that, and I read "John F. Fantasy's post!!