I mentioned in some post or other this week that I’ve really come to like Chrome.  One of the reasons is how completely spiffy quick it is not just to use once opened, but to open up.  It loads, no kidding here, 15 seconds faster than FF and 5 seconds faster than IE.  That got me to thinking so I loaded each browser up to the same three pages I have as my default tabs in Chrome and looked at the memory usage of each in Vista Taskmanager.  IE of course is the big hog at 124,000 with FF a close second at 94,000 and Chrome comes in at an anorexic 30,000.  Sheesh, no wonder its fast to load and causes me so much less trouble when shelling in and out of WoW with it open.

The only thing that FF has going for it is Ad Block Plus.  Why those guys haven’t made something for Chrome yet saddens me.  SelectView for IE is nice in that it blocks a lot of ads, but still leaves the “blocks” where they would appear as empty real estate.  Ad Block Plus completely removes the ad from the page leaving only what you’re there for.  Amazing.  Doesn’t make up enough for FFs other flaws including just being kinda ugly, even compared to IE.