Those of us that have chosen to move away from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer; (for all the obvious reasons — we won’t get into that, here); and embrace Mozilla’s FireFox probably use Google’s gMail, as well.

With the release of FireFox 3.0; (maybe even a little before); you’ve more than likely been witnessing strangeness with your browser whenever you’ve gone to check your gMail. Slow downs, massive CPU consumption.. just stupid sh** that never happened before. And if you’re one of those people that goes looking in the community for answers to stupid shi**, like me then I’m sure you’ve come away scratching your head a little.

The resident uber geeks will tell you to “tweak this.. change that.. config those.. then run around the house three times and all will work fine!”.. AND, (again if you’re like me), you take some of that stuff with a big grain of salt… because what I’ve found is that some of those geeks will purposely break stuff just to give themselves something else to fix. ::shrug:: Guess they get their kicks like that; I don’t know.

I went into the about:config section of my FireFox and stared at the big Warning! Warning, Will Robinson! message for a good 10 seconds and ultimately said, “OK, fugg it! I can always change it back, right?”.. shaking, I clicked the “OK, I’m on my own” button. Went in and tweaked a couple things..

Went back to gMail and.. DAMMIT!! — biotch was still dragging along.

Now, at a point like this, (as the progressive thinkers that we are) you might be tempted to go back to the geeks and try to find some further instruction. Yet, this time something stopped me. Namely that new little browser that came outta nowhere from .. who?.. Google themselves; Chrome.

Now, when I first read about Chrome I LMAO because I’m thinkin’, “..these fools done LOST their mind”. I mean, there is NO WAY that Google can make a dent in the browser market. Yet, I can now see the method in their madness.

I loaded Chrome.. pulled up gMail bwith/b FireFox open.. and wouldn’t you know it.. smooth sailing. Now, what’s that tell you? Google isn’t really pushing Chrome; not like they are Google Apps or YouTube or AdSense or AdWords or… shoot, none of their stuff. Yet, there it is.. sittin’ there waiting on some frustrated Netizen to find it out of desperation.

OH, and don’t expect anything spectacular from Chrome. Its got its purpose and that is very apparent. With its ability to create (what they call) Application Shortcuts, the more you use it the more its bintended/b use becomes apparent.

So, there ya go. Now you can stop beating up your keyboard everytime you go to check your gMail.

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