I WAS WRONG: Update here.
I <3 Google Chrome. It’s my most favorite and 1st choice browser. It’s fast, quick, has tear away tabs, puts tabs and plugins into their own processes (and with my tricore processor and Windows Vista… that’s actually a pretty snazzy idea)… there’s only two features I miss from Firefox.
RSS Smart Dropdown Bookmarks in the Bookmark Bar, and Mozilla Prism.
Now, Prism isn’t actually part of Firefox; you can get it standalone. But why do that, when there’s the Prism for Firefox Extension? This is really neat; I’ve got a menuitem that lets me break a web application (say, Gmail) into a Prism, and it runs in it’s own process on the desktop. Neat!
Looking into the process explorer, I found that the prisms running from Prism for Firefox use firefox.exe, not xulrunner.exe. Super cool awesome, because I installed Google Gears, and now Gmail is running even more awesome than ever, INSIDE the prism-like applications, on my desktop! Sweet!
Now I can have my two Gmail boxes open, 24/7, in Gmail, without cluttering my browser windows. And I can happily use Google Chrome for all other browsing needs; I get Firefox’s super fast javascript system and Google Gears running Gmail.
Once Google Chrome has a “Prism” type system (Heck, just let me run Chrome off the command line in tabless-and-address/navbarless mode, and you’ve got Prism right there!), I can see myself ditching Firefox for all but the tasks I can’t use in Chrome. Sure, I’ll still have it around, like I have IE7 and Opera, just in case I need it… but I really don’t miss it!
