I switched to chrome pretty early on. Firefox was pretty unusable then. Typically with more than 8 tabs or so, some damn ad in some damn tab would call flash,

I switched to chrome pretty early on. Firefox was pretty unusable then. Typically with more than 8 tabs or so, some damn ad in some damn tab would call flash, and the whole thing would hang. Chrome used a different CPU per tab and put flash in it's own process so it wouldn't hang the entire browser. I was quite impressed and told everyone I know how much better it was. Pretty quickly I switched. Even today I get the occasional query from a windows or mac user who wants the "good" browser installed instead of IE or Safari. Yes, novices still can't install their own browser no matter how easy it is.