[rehab.is.for.retards]

In July of last year, I wrote a long winded and frustration-born post about my struggles with Firefox, which had seen a recent upgrade to version 3.  I thought it only fair to report that Firefox 3 has been working well for me on both of my XP machines (still no new hardware or motivation to try Vista or the beta for Win 7) and my development Linux box (and the linux install I had on my laptop for about 6 months).

Chrome came into the view a while back, and after beating down suspicions that it was little more than a Google services platform, and taking a lot of slack for extension lack, it has really shown itself a worthy competitor in the browser arena.

The lack of extensions is the main issue for me, or at least I thought it was.  Over time, and now with Chrome v.2, which offers a stable build with full screen, I’ve realized that while some extensions are irreplaceable, if a browser is good enough at it’s core, you don’t really need to extend it.  There will always be special needs for customization, and Firefox is the itinerant work horse here. It will always have a warm spot in my heart for taking on the big blue ‘e’ (IE) and holding it’s own there.  But Chrome is just hitting the spot these days, at least on my Windows builds.

In other tech related notes, I’m testing an Ubuntu 8.10 server install on some old cobbled together hardware to fool around and… serve stuff here at home.  After I muck about a bit more, I’ll post up on it.