Because 1) Google pushes it hard with their extremely popular web services, and 2) it feels more snappy than Firefox. I mean I use Firefox, but any time I have

Because 1) Google pushes it hard with their extremely popular web services, and 2) it feels more snappy than Firefox. I mean I use Firefox, but any time I have to open Chrome for whatever reason, it just feels like the UI is responding a handful of milliseconds faster than Firefox, even on very powerful hardware.