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I recently discovered that a massive number of non savvy PC users don't use IE8 at all because they're given bad advice or have simply heard the worst stories about it, and instead download Chrome while STILL having no idea that there are tons of other browsers out there, so this doesn't really surprise me. Still, of course, this doesn't mean that Chrome is anywhere near the best browser choice anymore, subjectively or not.
Personally, last time I used it (around v12 maybe), it was slower than IE8 and taking more RAM than Firefox after installing all the extensions to make it anywhere near useful to me.