Speaking of thanking Google, I finally got fed up with Firefox's terrible performance yesterday, and decided to go ahead and switch to Chrome (well, Chromium to be exact - the reason why what I'm using is called that rather than Chrome is complicated and boring). I'd tried it earlier, but there were some extensions I couldn't give up that didn't have a working Chrome analogue available... now, though, everything works almost right (biggest annoyance being how mouse gestures don't work on a lot of special pages - but then again you don't look at special pages a lot in normal browsing). Using the web is like being hit in the face by a wave of swirling rainbow colours again

No-one should be without a parasol, Sirocco.