There is some data that Chrome will soon take over Firefox as the second most used browser, after of course IE. eek ,gads. Anyway, has anyone else notice the CHROME ADS ON TV lately? Can you remember ever a firefox ad? I remember IE ads, but haven't seen a google ad EVER - till now. What is that going to mean for the 100M a year that FF generates in ad revenue?

the angry birds version is great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chHxNAJ8B1U and the game itself does play nicely in chrome.

The other ones seem to be promoting a bunch of google properties, not just chrome. They are also nicely done.

I think they are using it as a basic publicity campaign. (maybe tied to the gov't approvals they need ...)

-David

I honestly like firefox better, both on my android and my laptops and desktops, I'd much rather people use chrome than IE, so I am not really biased, and in fact posting from Chrome now, but firefox just works better for me most of the time.

in my continuing fiascos with mozilla, they sent a download upgrade for both thunderbird and firefox at the same time. they got seriously crossthreaded. thunderbird was so screwed up it demanded i have a POP service. i do not. it did a lot of other things that made mail service unworkable.

what is a replacement mail service, for MS and now for mozilla?

firefox also got screwed up in this latest DL mess. if i test the dl speed in iexplore, it is twice that of firefox. firefox is bogged down at least 10 fold. behaves like a phone connection, instead of cable. ie runs at normal speed.

i guess i will try chrome, but need an email package to go with it.

I'd not give up on thunderbird just because of this, and I also don't have POP connections but it works properly. Did it just give an error about a DLL unable to overwrite? I've had that happen once with POP and once with IMAP dlls, and that is actually a windows bug.

I haven't found anything on windows nearly as capable of handling large amount of email as tbird. Outlook is out of the question for me as I have over 500k email stored, and I can search them all in a matter of seconds on tbird.

on linux Evolution is an outlook like app and really nice. It is on version 3.x there is a windows version 2.28 from 2009 or early 2010 here:
http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/

I don't think it is missing anything to much, if you wanted to give it a try....but no promises on windows

If you are on windows, they have a Mail app, it's part of the Windows Live stuff. You can try that. http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mail

Though I find it hard to believe your assumption that updating two separate programs at the same time was "crossthreaded" (whatever that means in this context). Just remove them and reinstall the current versions. For your imap accounts, all the messages are stored on the server, so even if you have to recreate the accounts in t-bird, you haven't lost any mail messages.

chrome is worth trying either way. But there's no reason you can't have a cleanly working firefox also. Get rid of all the plugins and do a clean install.

-David

Imagine that, 8.0 was released today.

Call me old schooled, but I still find 3.6 being most stable and prefer to use it over newer versions.

Unless you're using web applications specifically developed for this version it isn’t more stable and it's definitely not anywhere near as secure. It's also several orders of magnitude slower when browsing the modern, JavaScript / AJAX-filled Internet.

I haven't noticed much in the FF5/6/7 cycle - I figured I just didn't notice it or my hardware/network didn't let me take advantage of the improvements. But after about an hour of use I've concluded that FF8 just screams.....

Yowsers - I agree! IE9 is a steam engine in comparison...

t-bird and ff both seem fast after the install & restart. Hope they stay fast. t-bird startup was incredibly fast.

-David

i found my problem about a month ago. panda(an antivirus program) had UG to the 2012 version. it caused the hangups. i delited panda. have loaded norton something or other, and have speed and feed. have FF 7.01 and tbird 7.01 have not been notified of FF8. have not figured out how to get tbird to stop searching for a nonexistant "pop" server.

I got the 8 today. Went from 3.6 to 8. Looks like 1E9 to me.

It's one in a billion!