The memory holes that Firefox is plagues with are the only thing that makes me consider switching to Chrome, which I have so far been highly reluctant to do (read other posts in the Browser Wars category to see why). Fortunately, that is supposed to change with the next release. Here's hoping it pans out.
Update: Or not. The fairly early beta they have out doesn't appreciably fix the memory problem as far as I can tell and is even slower than Firefox 6. Trying it did have one salutary effect: it made Firefox 6 seem fast instead of sluggish. Hopefully this will change as the development process continues. Hopefully.
Update 2: Fed up with the sluggishness of Firefox, and seeing little reason to hope in the new release, I seriously considered switching to Chrome today. Then I found out that Smooth Gestures, the only mouse gestures extension that really works on Chrome for Linux, has been taken down as spyware. I guess I'll stick with slow old Firefox for the time being. At least until the original author releases his fork of the project, anyway.
Update 3: Apparently the creator of Smooth Gestures intends to make his fork a paid browser extension. Assuming it doesn't have a free basic functionality mode, that does it for me. I am not going to pay for a browser extension, especially not one that produces functionality that should be universally available. I wonder why it isn't simply built in to Chrome and Firefox. An Opera patent issue?
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