legion of one

I’ve been playing with the new Google Chrome browser, and even though it’s not going to replace FireFox for me (at least not yet), I’ve found a very nifty way to use it.

My Gmail is on one Google account, and my other things like Google Analytics, AdSense, etc., are on different Google accounts. Till now I’ve had to log out of Gmail and log in to the other Google Accounts to access those other Google services. Then log back into Gmail when I’ve done what I wanted to do in the other services.

Now I run Gmail in the Google Chrome browser, which is ideal because Gmail is resource intensive with all the Javascript and Ajax that it uses. I would assume that Chrome would be optimized to run Google applications.

Memory usage of Chrome, compared with FireFox, appears to be far better optimized. Google Chrome uses less than 70MB, while FireFox consumes 250MB+. It might only be my imagination, but it looks as if Gmail is running a little faster and smoother in Chrome.

Google Chrome won’t replace FireFox in my day-to-day work for some time to come.

I’m heavily dependent on several FireFox add-ons, such as RoboForm (can’t live without it), AdBlock, and Web Developer Toolbar, to name just a few.

Until such time that those add-ons are available on Chrome, I’ll just let Chrome do what one expects it would excel at, and that’s running Gmail.

Oh wait, I haven’t mentioned Internet Explorer. Ugh. I use it only to check if it correctly displays my web sites, which it often doesn’t do.

I asked the question, “If Twitter went offline for a month, would you return to it when it comes back online?” on both Twitter and FriendFeed.

Judging from the responses (see below), most folks would probably return to Twitter.

FriendFeed added a much needed feature, namely the ability to block another user.

When you block the user, they become invisible to you. You don’t see any of their entries, and more importantly, you don’t see any of their comments on other people’s entries.

They also don’t see any of your entries.