I loved Opera so much. It was fast and seamless.However more and more sites wouldn't show up properly in Opera and they did the silly integration of torrents which messed it up.I went to Firefox, with lots of extensions and skins to make it work like Opera, but it was a pain to configure and use, some websites would break and just had allaround a lot of issues.When I found Chrome it was love at first sight, all the useability of Opera, the speed of FireFox and the rendering from Internet Explorer.Also Google integration is added which is a huge bonus... You have the same settings on every pc, tablet and phone.. soo nice.
Unfortunately, Chrome has also been getting slower in the past couple of years, as, I assume, they are trying to put more and more functions/spyware into it, which is what slowed down IE and made me switch in the first place......