you are very mistaken. mass advertising and public appeal is what made chrome popular, but that doesn't mean firefox has suddenly become a dinosaur. infact firefox runns better in many respects. i used chrome for a while and experienced sh*t loads of chrashes and plugin failures. i was also suprised that it was slower than firefox i actualy believed the adverts and thought chrome would be faster...it wasn't. apart from the design, firefox still tops chrome in many ways.
Last but not least firefox is a profit free company and so they won't try to impose their services upon you.

yea chrome takes up sticks of ram especially when you have 100+ tabs open. always have to kill flash and other extensions to free up memory.

All computers come with IE installed as the default browsers. On the corporate level it makes more sense to use IE because administrators have an easier time filtering what content users can access or download. Chrome does not require Admin privileges for add ons etc, which could possibly circumvent the terminal and network.

there is commercials for IE9 now and once windows 8 hits it will be the browser of choice.

the masses dont know anything Ive learned this along time ago. what ever is sparkly wins.