So here’s the deal: I was slow to get on the Firefox wagon way-back-when for the most part because I wanted to surf with the browser that most of our client’s traffic¹ used. In the end what won me over were the developer add-ons and extensions.

Several years later I am still developing on the same laptop and still using Firefox, but thinking that I need a new computer because its just running slow at times; you know, just not as responsive as I would like it to be. So I start looking for new computers – mostly window shopping on-line.

Anyways, at some point, at the behest of a client who finds a CSS bug in Chrome, I install Google’s browser even though it doesn’t play nice with UltraMon². Its nice, fast and has a clean interface etc.

Its only after using for a while and having to re-boot Firefox I-don’t-know-how-many-times-a-day due to its memory leakage issues that I decide that TeuxDeux and Basecamp will run in Chrome on one monitor dedicated to planning and organizing.

Several days later I realize that Chrome has grabbed all of my passwords (!) from Firefox; this alleviates a lot of migration hurt so I close Firefox and try to use Chrome exclusively, and guess what? My computer is flying again. My 6 year old laptop with 4gigs of DDR2 ram ³ is flying. So I no longer need a new machine.

That’s right, it used to be that when my computer became slow, it was the OS and not enough RAM or HD; turns out that hasn’t happened yet. Thanks Chrome, you just saved me purchasing a new laptop⁴.