For most of the past five years there were two major Web browser options if you were a PC user:  Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.  Firefox stole a lot of market share from Microsoft, despite having IE bundled with Windows, by providing a new product with new bells and whistles, tons of configurability, and a bona-fide alternative to the Microsoft machine.

Firefox became a popular choice, especially among the more savvy users of the Windows-based PC.  I’ve been using it almost exclusively for the past couple of years and I’ve enjoyed using it instead of Explorer.  But lately…  Firefox has been annoying me.  It uses a bunch of memory, for one thing.  The other thing is that more often than not, Firefox doesn’t close properly.  So then I have to go into Windows Task Manager and shut down the Firefox process.  It happens way too often.

Meanwhile, about a year ago Google released their own browser called Chrome.  I never used to see any great advantage in using Chrome, mainly because I had all of my bookmarks in Firefox, etc.  At the same time, Chrome promised to be simpler, easier on memory, more stable, etc.  However, there never seemed to be any compelling reason to change.

I think I’m finally ready to give Chrome a serious try.   Tonight I had to reboot my PC (again) due to Firefox problems.  Enough is enough.  I’m now on a Firefox diet and I’m going to stick to using Google Chrome for the next month.

Onward.