I suspect the websites that use this system won’t be worth visiting anyway.

So you won’t use your banks website?
Or your utilities (gas/water/electricity/internet)?
You won’t let your kids use the portal at their school for submitting assignments?
Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

I can think of **lots ** of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.

Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

As a government programmer, let me assure you that we're so goddamn far behind modern tech we've only just stopped supporting IE6.

Comforting and Terrifying.
Comferrifying?
Terriforting?