I am aware that steam for linux (and possibly windows) uses the Chromium Embedded Framework to render pages on the store etc...

However, the performance on the steam browser is much slower than the performance i experience on google-chrome-stable or chromium. This is most notable while watching videos and seeing the store page slide between offers.

Chrome version: 29.0.1547.57
Chromium version: 28.0.1500.71 Ubuntu 12.04 (28.0.1500.71-0ubuntu1.12.04.1)

Here is my system information:

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    Speed: 2001 Mhz
    8 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Supported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported

Network Information:
    Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.2.0-52-generic
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11103000
    X Window Manager:  KWin
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-06-28

Video Card:
    Driver:  Tungsten Graphics, Inc Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2

    Driver Version:  3.0 Mesa 8.0.4
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0xdcd
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  2
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 20.91" x 11.73"  (23.94" diag)
                                            53.1cm x 29.8cm  (60.8cm diag)
    Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
    Audio device: Intel CougarPoint HDMI

Memory:
    RAM:  3868 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  122082 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  88800 Mb

Installed software:

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