I don't know how anyone can stand using Chrome for the Surface.
It's slow, laggy, poor gesture support and buggy as hell. Metro IE works fine.
Each to their own, right? When I first installed my SP2 I downloaded Chrome straight away and set it as my default browser.
Today after getting more and more annoyed by the lack of pinch-zoom and metro mode, I switched over to IE.
I was thinking "this is great" for a good few hours.
Well, with the exception of the fact I had to actually google to work out how to change my default search provider as it wasn't obvious. And the fact I have no Ad Block in IE (how do people live without this?!) And the fact the address bar seems a bit ridiculous and the favourites implementation is a little bit cryptic in my opinion...
Then at 2pm, I wrote a huge long blog comment (you know the kind, really in-depth) and accidentally must have hit back, or forward, or hit on some stupid advert.
You guessed it - my comment disappeared, I hit the back button, and the thing was lost.
Chrome never loses text you have written into forms like that. Even if it crashes (super rare), when you re-launch it magically comes back up with text you entered in a form / comment / blog post / whatever.
So yes - poor gesture support (well, none except swipe for back and forward), but as for "slow, laggy", and "buggy as hell" - I've no idea what you are talking about!
Despite Chrome being far from marvellous on the Surface, it's still my browser of choice.
