Mozilla

During the days leading up to the release of Google Chrome, I kept thinking... Oh, No, what's going to happen to Mozilla and Firefox. But after having test driven Chrome for about 2 weeks, I can say for certain that no serious Firefox user will give it up just yet. Google has it's work cut out if it wants to win this war.

With my aging computer, I was barely able to keep 5-6 tabs open using Chrome. With Firefox, I usually have two windows (one for Gmail, Facebook, etc and another one for whatever I am researching) Both windows usually have 6+ tabs open at any given time. Trying to multi-task with Chrome running was a nightmare. Because each tab is a separate process, the browser uses up 100% (or close enough) of my CPU cycles to keep itself alive.

One of the biggest stories circulating the blogospehre today is the 'mistake' that Google made, was to prematurely announce it's release of a browser - known as Google Chrome, which will compete against Firefox, IE and Safari.

For the past few months, I have not been happy with her performance of any of the web-browsers I’ve tried. As more and more sites become Flash, and JavaScript oriented – ala Web 2.0 – the browsers have to adapt to run those at optimum performance.

Firefox

I remember when animated Gif's where the coolest thing around. They were used everywhere... from a horizontal rule, to icons, to menu buttons to really annoying background animations on the whole webpage.

Mozilla finally released the long awaited Firefox 3 beta. Still in its early stages, it is considered unstable and not fully secure. So if you are going to follow my instructions below and install it, tread with caution. Don't use it for writing any long emails without saving occasionally, and don't do your banking or online Christmas shopping with it just yet.