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Posted by on Jan 31, 2013 in Technology | 5 comments

Chrome

I have made the switch to Chrome on a more or less permanent basis.  Firefox has become increasingly unstable in the last few days.  I mean that literally, three days ago, it was fine.

Since then, whenever FF is running, my disk access approaches 100% of bandwidth (considering it’s an SSD on SATAIII, that’s scary).  Firefox runs for about five minutes then crashes, taking anything using the disk with it.

I’ve created new profiles, removed add-ons, even uninstalled and reinstalled.  Nothing.  I also did a full system restore to last week, still nothing helped.

So, Chrome.  Smaller, lighter, faster… better?  I’ll have to get used to a new RSS reader and I’ll need to find out if Chrome has a few of the tools I actually used in Firefox, but so far so good.  I’ll take a lower productivity if it saves my system.

Any questions or requests for posts?

  • sstar

    I have one, why do you think Lenski et al are so hesitant to call the new variant Cit+ a new species? I mean if they would have found it in the wild there is almost no doubt that it would have been classed a new species.

    • SmilodonsRetreat

      I’ve talked to a few of Lenski’s researchers and it appears that they are thinking along those lines. Reading between the lines of some conversations, I think that they are planning on submitting for a new species… maybe more…

      That’s pure speculation by me, but I would agree with it. If the defining character of E. coli is that it doesn’t metabolize citrate, but now we’ve observed evolutionary changes that allow it to metabolize citrate, then I think that’s a new species.

      On the other hand, the concept of a ‘species’ in asexual organisms is kind of silly anyway.

  • http://www.www.skepticink.com/tippling/ Jonathan MS Pearce

    Chrome all the way, baby.

  • http://www.www.skepticink.com/tippling/ Jonathan MS Pearce

    A post on endogenous retroviruses. I want to do one, but have little time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/malcolm.mclean.739 Malcolm McLean

    I just started to read your blog, so I’m not sure if this would be within your scope, or your interest. However, your interests do seem to be rather wide ranging.

    How about something on bacteria and phages – maybe even on the use of phages as antibacterial agents, in place of antibiotics. A couple of comments on a SciAm blog post about amoxicillin mentioned the use of phages, and it seemed quite interesting.