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Surprisingly, Firefox performs better than Chrome for me.

i7, 20GB RAM, Quadro K2000M, Fedora 19, latest stable of both Firefox and Chrome.

On fedora 20 with binary nvidia drivers it works flawlessly both with firefox and chrome up to 2M particles on a gtx 680.

Works okay on an old Core2duo Macbook with Nvidia 9400M GPU in Chrome 37.something, so it's likely the driver.

i3 with Mint 17. Looks good[1] up to 131K on Chrome (37.0.2062.120). I don't know if your configuration is wonky or your machine is just old, but it actually is a very impressive website.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/x8f40v5.jpg

My laptop's fan has has hit overdrive and beyond.

Works well on Ubuntu 12.04 with Chrome (core i7, 8 Gb).