I'll NEVER use Google Chrome or any other product from Google other than (occasionaly) their search engine.
They know too damn much already, f* em.
Stick with IE if you're so inclined, wont kill anyone, except the obsessed fan-boy who sees IE6 in his log files and goes berserk.
An excellent small footprint browser is Opera. Built in,you can block adverts, disable Javascript for only trusted sites and block plugins as well (the great vector for most hackers)
Firefox I use, mostly for the plugins and such, but Opera uses far less memory and will perform better on win 2000