Speaking of things that don't benefit the user, Chrome is proprietary software (dare I say spyware) that sends your keystrokes to Google. I think Firefox's frequent UI changes pale in comparison.
I believe it is that simple. If you can find them sending your keystrokes through any other means, then please download Fiddler and write a blog article with the results of your testing :-)
That argument doesn't really help the discussion.
Except for very sensitive data, usability is generally a bigger factor. And anyway, its not like you have a lot of options to choose from.
Your comment makes it sound like everything I type in Google Chrome is sent to Google. Is this what you meant? If so, do you have a source for this or are you just spreading FUD?
If you have search suggestions enabled, when you type things into the address bar it has to send what you are typing to Google in order to get suggestions. I don't recall if that's on by default.
Even when you type "facebook.com" and hit enter (without using search), it still sends "facebook.com" to Google so they know what you typed every time.
