Forked off from the Chromium Project with a lot of features.
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Verbose resource management
Has a setting to unload tabs from RAM and CPU usage after a customizable threshold number of tabs are open built in.
Pro Built in adblock
Supports adding lists in ublock, adblock, adblockplus, and peerblock/peerguardian text formats.
Pro Fast and stable
Lower memory footprint and CPU usage than Chromium.
Pro Allows for no tracking
Has advanced settings to reduce web presence footprint.
Pro Still compatible with Google's ChromeSync functionality
Sign in to back up your extensions and settings, just like always.
Pro Built in download manager
Multi-threaded streaming download manager with resume functionality. Interrupted downloads will resume when the program is launched again; number of threads and download location customizable on a per-download basis. Actually downloads Linux ISO's from most popular distributions faster than deluge, utorrent, transmission, etc.
Pro Built in youtube/html5/flash downloader
Allows for downloading both video and extracted mp3 audio, a la youtube2mp3.
Pro Integrated shopping and share-to-social-media function
Button is linked to cookies, so doesn't work if signed out (for security/privacy), and also doesn't include any additional tracking like a browser extension would (Facebook, Amazon, etc.)
Pro Separates from Google's servers and tracking
Pro Cross platform, with zipped portable application available for windows
You can still bring it with you on a flash drive, even when you're not on Linux.
Cons
Con Still based upon Chromium/Chrome
Can yield to bloat if clogged with too many plugins and apps from the webstore