I'm in the same boat: I've been a Chrome user and advocate since 2008 and I definitely feel the bloat they've added to it over the past few years. Vanilla Safa

I'm in the same boat: I've been a Chrome user and advocate since 2008 and I definitely feel the bloat they've added to it over the past few years. Vanilla Safari with zero extensions has been completely satisfactory for me for quite some time. I have Chrome installed, but nowadays I only use it for a kind of "Flash Browser", where I only use it when there's a flash-requiring that I'm convinced is worth my time (most flash-requiring sites definitely aren't.) Occasionally I'll use Chrome's developer tools, which I find to be more robust than Safari's too. Safari is by far the faster browser in my experience, it scrolls faster, it uses less battery, it has nicer OS integration on OSX (swipe-to-go-back feels much more natural in Safari, for instance), and it just seems simpler than Chrome (the UI gets out of your way better, IMO.)