I'll have to take another look at AdBlock, it's been a couple of years since I last used it. I've been meaning to give Firefox Quantum a go, I still use Chrome as my main browser just out of habit really. I've got a similar machine that's coming up to 10 years old, just about runs Win10 but Chrome is a definite no go.
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I only use Google Chrome for sites that absolutely require it, like some video streaming sites. Firefox has had better Unicode support for few years already, so I can actually see what people post instead of bunch of empty squares. As a journalist I have to work with young adults that use a lot of emojis in their posts and that has never worked using Chrome without any additional extensions and last usable extension was removed from Chrome store over a year ago.
I use most of Google's services, Gmail etc. so it just kinda made sense to use Chrome for me, although they've removed elements of syncing across devices, but I've just installed Firefox on my laptop and phone and that still does full cross-device syncing so you may have converted me to Firefox.
I use Chrome on my tablet, because the Android version requires less memory. I use Gmail and I was one of the map makers for Google Maps before they did reset the map data and locked editing. Google AdSense was also the primary ad provider for my company in it's early days before they did blacklist companies making networking products. Currently I'm member of Google Local Guides.