Ohhhhhhhh Google.

Remember them about 10 years ago? Fighting away at Yahoo, Altavista and AOL with their simple, clean and speedy search results? Yeah well, man they’ve come a long way.

Anyway, back to the point – I finally decided to make the switch to Google Chrome. Okay fine, I made it sound a little bigger than it really is. But the truth is… you really get attached to your browser! Well at least I did. My firefox is customized to the brim! Skinned, and with so many quality extensions/plugins that I’m not quite sure how people stay productive without em.

So why the switch? The big reason? Speed. And also just slightly because Firefox was starting to get a little glitchy/buggy for me. Open 3 windows of FF, and load about 20-40 tabs in each – and let the glitches begin. Chrome handles my 4 windows with 30 tabs so well it always feels like I just started a fresh session. There’s absolutely no indication I’m on my 100th tab…

Aside from that – Chrome starts up milesssss quicker that Firefox. It generally loads pages significantly quicker, and it’s tab management system is far superior to Firefox’s. Since each Chrome tab consumes a separate process – one frozen tab won’t kill the entire browser – simply pull up the Chrome Task Manager and kill that specific tab. Brilliant. Anyway, I’ve also been hesitant to switch over for the last while because Chrome didn’t orginally support Extensions (custom/3rd-party plugins that add functionality to the browser). The good news – it now does! All the essentials are there – Adblock, Session Manager, Firebug, Gmail Notifier, and IE Tab just to name a few. Heck, I found a neato Chrome-only one called Beautify Facebook! lol.

Anyway. The switch was quick (Google Chrome simply imports all your bookmarks and history from Firefox), and we’re back to Business As Usual. Except one thing. Where in the world is the goddamn Master Password feature? I hate the fact anyone on my computer can view all my saved passwords…

// end tech talk