Jim Lynch: Tech Analyst and Community Manager

For the last few years, Firefox has been the only browser I use regularly. I’ve never cheated on it. Oh sure, I’ve had brief flings. I tried my best to really like Safari on my Macs, but it always left me cold. I don’t use Windows enough to have Internet Explorer as my main browser. And none of the Linux browsers, such as Konqueror, floated my boat enough to lure me away from Firefox when I was using one of those operating systems.

Yes, no matter how hard I tried to make things work with other browsers, I always drifted back to Firefox.

Well, no more. As of today, I am dumping Firefox. I have a new love.

Google Chrome.

Full Speed Ahead with Chrome!
I just installed the beta of Chrome on my Mac and it absolutely screams! The difference between it and poor, chunky Firefox is pretty much night and day. Pages load significantly faster; even media-heavy sites like Facebook, where I play Farmville, are quite zippy.

Google Chrome is giving me a browsergasm! And I love it!

I’ve noticed that even if I keep a ton of tabs open in each window, Chrome seems to use less memory and to manage it much more effectively. Firefox has always been a huge memory pig. I closed Firefox down a little while ago and it had been using about 378MB of memory. I have about the same number of tabs open in a couple of windows in Chrome and it’s only using about 154MB.

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