i gotta say, if chrome stands out to you as a shining beacon of quality, i'd hate to hear about what software you consider bad
Plenty to criticise about it from a product perspective but from an engineering one it is kind of a marvel.
On my GFs computer Chrome starts in about 7 minutes after fresh boot, no other programs running, yet. From a fricking Samsung SSD, 8GiB RAM. All it has to do is show some fake tabs and render a single page content.
Tell about its quality to my GF. She's used to it, but some of these days, I'll check the DNS logs, to see if it's really loading all the 1000 tabs (she keeps open at once), for 0 reason whatsoever, or if it's just that slow to start one page.
There is something wrong with your GF’s computer. I have no idea what but a seven minute start time is absolutely atypical.
I actually know of quite a few people who use browsers this way, so it may not be a terrible idea to have something like this.
Also the same chrome profile starts very fast when she uses the "private browsing mode" which doesn't restore any tabs. So it really just seems like chrome having perf issues with tab restore with many tabs.
But anyway the point still stands: an outlier user with 1000 tabs open had a slow startup time doesn’t mean Chrome is horribly engineered. If it isn’t an extensions issue then it’s a minor bug.