With everything going on recently, and me being so incredibly busy with side projects, I completely forgot to mention that I switched back to Firefox over the holidays. I’m still a tremendous supporter of Flock and will continue to track its progress, but I simply can’t use the pre-1.0 version of the software. Not until they fix some glaring CPU leaks in the build. Flock constantly pegged my processor (a 1.4Ghz Celeron). I shut off all updating functions and even scrapped the news feeds (one of my favorite features, though using Google Reader these days means I don’t miss the built-in Flock RSS reader so much). But nothing worked. Every few seconds, it would completely hang up my computer for about 3 seconds. It was in a constant loop, and I couldn’t find any reason for it in the forums. I decided that with the 2.0 release of Firefox, I owed it to myself to jump back to my favorite browser and see how it has improved. In short: Firefox 2.0 is the most fantastic user experience I’ve ever been engaged in (at least, until 3.0 comes out).

I see now that they are up to version 7.9.1, which means they might get close to releasing 1.0 by spring. I’ll probably switch back about that time. Hopefully, all CPU issues will have been sorted out by then.

Until then, I’m loving Firefox (again).