Category: Opinion

Bye Firefox; Hello Chrome

I have long been a fan of Firefox but since version 1.6.6 it has turned into a nightmare. Firefox has become really slow, it crashes and can not recover from the crashes even if you reload the browser in safe mode. I had to remove and reinstall it to solve the problem. Too much hassle.

Chrome is fast and stable. I have yet to see it crash (and yes, I have also added a few extensions). Chrome has become my primary browser now.

Firefox remains the development browser of my choice until Chrome catches up with extensions for development.

SitePoint speculates “Dark Cloud Computing” because of recent Gmail outage

Recently I see a lot of negative posts on SitePoint against cloud computing. Cloud computing is fine. The problem is the huge user base of Gmail.

If a problem like this occurs to a smaller company that offers SaaS services, it won’t have such a big impact.

If you should always have access to your emails, backup your emails or go offline with google gears and stop complaining :)