Your need for plugins, styles, and scripts are the exact reason why the author claims Firefox has jumped the shark. It definitely can't feel 'right' if you need to customize it so much.

It feels 100% right after I am done customizing it. Chrome can never feel right because it's not customizable at all, really. One size does not fit all, and you don't get to tell me what feels right.

Everyone has different needs. Mine are not the same as yours. I used Chrome for several weeks, and it didn't meet my needs at all. With no extensions, I was unable to do 1/10th the things I do in Firefox.

It's not a bad browser, but it's extremely limited. I hope this will change, as I'd like more competition, but Chrome simply doesn't do the things that my extensions in Firefox enable it to do.

Also, some reading up on why FF has the extension model, and that not everyone uses a browser the same way, might be instructive here.

Agreed. I used to have a similar bloated Firefox setup and then switched to Chrome. I just couldn't go back to the Fox, even missing a few features like delicious integration, the feel of the url/search bar is too good.

Same here. I even went to the trouble of building a bookmarklet to handle the only Firefox plugin that I missed (rikaichan - http://www.tokyomuslim.com/2009/04/japanese-english-bookmark...)

+1 for that link. I've also got tons of add-ons, and that just made my Firefox 3.5b4 run even faster than it already does.