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When I switched to Firefox from Chrome, Flash didn't come with it, and I left it like this. In the very rare case, I pop open IE or Chrome. Works great!

Agreed. Oddly enough, one of the only website I have to open Chrome (which has Flash installed) for is ... Google Music. It has an HTML5 setting, but that seems to do nothing.

As far as I know, the HTML5 option for Google Music does work in most browsers, but not Firefox.

Apparently this is because it needs MediaSourceExtensions with HTML5 MP3 support, neither of which are in Firefox currently - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=911837

Curious, why not switch to Chromium instead? You would still want to disable plugins as you do now, but is there an advantage to using Chrome over Chromium once plugins are factored out?

If you're on Windows or Mac, there's no official binary download for chromium - you have to download it from a third-party blog or build it yourself.

The situation is better on Linux, as several distros include chromium packages.

I'd leave Google Update and Chrome PDF Viewer enabled.

I still get Chrome updates. I don't have "Google Update" as a plugin.