Old idealist geek alert. I realize that 192% of everyone who ever lived uses Facebook for every possible task 27 hours per day, but every time I read "Facebook", I can't help thinking about AOL in the late 90's..."This is not the way is was meant to be." We got away from the pseudo-monopolistic controls of AT&T, IBM, the US government, and finally AOL to enjoy the golden days of the world wide web from 2000 to 2005.…
I've tried Chrome on Mac OS X and found it to be generally faster than Safari but also a bit unstable. Freezing up occasionally etc. It's solid and blazing fast on Windows though.
I'd probably be using Chrome if a) you could open external links in new windows and b) the "loading" indicator wasn't some kind of horrible practical joke.