Speaking of browsers, I totally abandoned firefox for chrome now, since firefox was being so sluggish and giving me problems (the worst being that firefox thought it had updated every time it opened, and checked every addon at the start and always displayed a ton of tabs for updated addons). Chrome is a bajillion times faster, and the vast majority of my addons already exist or have suitable alternatives on chrome.
My top used addons, web developer, adblock plus, lastpass, and lazarus already existed on chrome, with some being better on chrome (a problem with lastpass not remembering certain settings was fixed, and web developer had a better menu). The youtube downloader extension "caught" more videos than the one I used on firefox, at the trade-off that it only works on youtube (the only ones I usually downloaded, though), the webpage screen capture tool works better in chrome, and measuring and colour picking tools also existed. Ultimate chrome flag was an extremely awesome extension, combining firefox's WoT, Flagfox, and also showing Alexia, Google pagerank, google trends and more.
Oh, and google has an angry birds app, plus an extended calculator app available. There's lots of great themes available that basically do the same as Firefox's personas, but are also seen on new tabs and the incognito window (aka: private browsing). Speaking of the incognito window, you can choose which extensions work in incognito mode, defaultly all are disabled. All tabs are separate processes, and are lightning fast and far stabler than Firefox, which has been sapping up memory even without any addons. Finally, chrome's extensions rarely, if ever, require a restart, whereas most of Firefox's addons do (though I note that some do not), and are much more lightweight. Chrome extensions are also capable of running when the browser is closed, if you choose, and can give desktop alerts, such as a gmail notifier extension.
I probably sound like a google ad now, but that's because google now owns pretty much everyone's soul.
The Street View van isn't going to find out anything Google won't already know from reading my email.
