Hi Dan,
I'm in no way oposed to Chrome (I consider it to have the best JS performance for web apps and I'm normally an Opera user, which essentially is a de-bundled Chrome).
But since my company forbids Chrome, and for what it's worth, all our tests were done with IE11 and (some) Firefox. Maybe give those a try, see how the mileage is. And if you'll find that IE actually performs better than Chome, do let us know (so I can make preparations, because then, the end of times must truly be upon us ;) )
Cheers,
Carsten