I used to have Chrome in past, but for me it became a headache because of adwares.. now I am sticking with the firefox and its great, however its a bit heavier as far as the resources are concerned.
In case if you really want to stay with the chrome than you can download an older version and can turn off its auto update function. by the way oldversion is the place where each of the past version is listed along with their release dates. So, it is easy for you to degrade you chrome to a point at which it was working fine