Just my experience, but I find more compatibility issues with FF than I do Chrome, when I'm on desktop. Especially when it comes to Adobe stuff (which is pain in the ***, anyway)
Used to love FF but I agree with you on the compatibility issues. And I quit using it because I found IT to be a huge memory hog.
Never have had a problem with Chrome being incompatible. Don't know what you mean by capabilities.
Most of my issues stemmed from Blackboard and Pearson MyLabPlus access. Constant issues with Chrome. Like, will not jive at all. Reinstalled several times as Chrome is the recommended browser for both, still no joy. Switched back to FF and both run like a top. This was, I guess, 2 years ago that I switched to Chrome. Switched back after a month of frustration. This was also during a time that Adblock was still a pipe dream for Chrome, and I didn't like that, either.
HATE the Chrome interface for favorites/bookmarks. HATE IT. It feels and looks generic and imported lists aren't/weren't pliable at all. The constant switch back a forth between Chrome bookmarks and imported lists... I just was not a fan at all.
At this time, and I'm sure it's caught up now, but FF just had so many more add-ons and customizations... like the thumbnail zoom for FB and Twitter, etc. That thing sucks on Chrome, but FF has several that work really well.
"Chrome splits every tab, plugin, and extension into its own process, so that if one thing crashes—like Flash—it doesn’t bring down the whole web page, or all your tabs at once. This can lead to higher memory (aka RAM) usage, since it has to duplicate some tasks for every tab. But it also makes things a lot more convenient.
There are other things going on behind the scenes, too. Chrome's prerendering feature, for example, can cause higher memory usage, but it also means your web pages load faster. Certain extensions or web sites may also leak memory, which won’t get “cleaned up” when you’re done with it, causing higher RAM usage over time.
And, of course, the more tabs, extensions, and plugins you have open, installed, and running, the more memory Chrome is going to use.
So yes: Chrome uses a lot of RAM, but it (mostly) does so with good reason: your convenience. Most of us have become accustomed to lots of tabs and fast page loading, and the price we pay is measured in gigabytes of RAM. That’s not to say Chrome couldn’t use some memory optimization—it probably could—but this is likely the future of web browsing."
I get over 50mbps down and nearly 5 up, even faster at work, so page load speed isn't really an issue for me. In my experience, FF, using roughly the same add-ons and features, uses a little more than half the RAM Chrome does.
