I mean really, the performance sucks! The Firebug add-on is a 600Kb+ download and it feels as if it really, really slows it down. I have for a while now switched over to Google Chrome, because it is such a fast and responsive browser. I have found one or two issues when using Facebook with Chrome, but other than that its a pretty cool browser. The thing I dislike the most about Firefox is that its process does not terminate completely sometimes, and if you start a new instance of the browser the OS complains that Firefox is still running. Even IE is way quicker than Firefox. I used Firefox for development, and specifically the Firebug and Web Developer plugins, but I have decided to switch over to Chrome, because it does have a developer plugin. IE 8 also has a developer plugin. Thats my two cents for now.

So Google released their own browser, Chrome about three weeks ago. As with many things in life if something is interesting and new everybody is likely to have a try, or look at it, but as soon as the shine wears off they will go back to their old habits. The same sentiment holds true for Google Chrome, which after its release had about 1% browser share, but now seems to be steadily losing ground and giving share back to Internet Explorer and Firefox. Does this mean that Google will stop the development of Chrome? Will they continue developing it? Was it a flop by Google to build a browser? Only time will tell.

You can read more about this in Computer Weekly’s article.

How often do you use GMail? Well, if you use Gmail and you use the web-based version in your browser then you will know how boring the interface can be. With that being said I found Globex Designs and the Stylish Firefox plug in that literally transforms a mundane and boring looking GMail into a slick and awesome looking interface.