Just like you, many things that are keeping me from switching to Chrome from FF but the biggest one for me, and perhaps lots of FF users out there, is faithfulness. We have known it's a pain (since Chrome’s appearance) but we can bear with it because at least, FF doesn't leave their users behind.
They are also working on stability and I would bet it will be much better than Chrome (my friend is using Chrome and he reported lots of crashes even though it is designed for "crash free" at beginning).
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/firefox_implement_outo...
FF is playing catch up on these issues but hopefully, with all other stuffs (Weave, Contact, Account Manager...) that Mozilla is investing in, FF will be the world champion in browser competition market!
For me, it's the lack of addons that can radically change the UI. In Firefox, I run Vimperator (there's a few addons that are catching up to it in Chrome, but they cannot hide the various toolbars afaik), Hide Title Bar (minor, but nice to have), and Tree Style Tabs (essential. Chrome cannot handle large numbers of tabs, and all the addons I've seen that attempt to handle this issue aren't nearly as nice). The UI is almost unrecognizable, but I actually like the set up. Unfortunately, Chrome simply cannot do that type of modification, at least as far as I know. I'd be very happy to be proven wrong here. The speed of Chrome is fantastic, I just wish it had those few addons.
You meant http://www.google.com/reader, right? (or one of several online alternatives). Why would anyone want to read their RSS feeds in a single browser on a single machine in 2010? Do people these days really spend all their online time at a single machine?
When a user clicks on a .rss URL in FF the page is rendered in a human-readable format. This aids the user in determining whether or not the feed is worth subscribing to.
Chrome displays it in plaintext. Now you've gotta import it into your reader before you decide if you really even want to subscribe.
Actually i meant all of the rss reading eyxtension there.
I thought some of them are Google Reader integration and some of them are the standard rss-fetching kind.. never tried one of them, though ;)
My list of things keeping from Chrome is same as yours though I'd also add lack of google gears support. I don't understand how they have that for firefox but they don't have it from Chrome. In addition to this Chrome (on the mac) crashes quite frequently for me.
* Lack of built-in RSS support. This one kind of blows my mind.
* Worst progress indicator I've ever seen.
* Can't open external links in new windows, have to open in "tab of whatever my last used browser window was".
* Flash crashes more than it does in Safari/Firefox, but I don't blame Chrome for that.
Not exactly constructive to the conversation I guess, but at least the first three things have been driving me nuts for a bit.