Having had 2 PCs turn into bricks using Chrome, I can understand Steemit's wish to not use it. When Chrome first came out, about 7 months before the Chrome OS I had my first experience with "Bricking"
I installed Chrome and started finding things getting lost. Strands from the Win XP system I was using, full documents I would be writing, etc. Then, the PC just stopped working,,, first "Brick" that I was clueless about cause.
Then a Win 2000 server I had running "Bricked". Lost work, lost friends and the WORST,, lost clients. Built new box after each app install I created a "restore" point, not just a backup. For about 4 months I did not install any browser. After installing Chrome after making sure I had a very stable machine, it began failing. I ran uninstall to get rid of Chrome and it would not go. I had to format, the restore the boot record then restore system prior to Chrome. I had a stable system. I went to firefox and use duckduckgo for searches and found the "Vivaldi" browser. Machine is still stable and the only slow down I get comes from bandwidth issues.Good luck with your system. Mike, out