Chrome makes for a clean, speedy alternative to IE or Firefox, especially if you live a lot in the land of Google. One persistent challenge is memory usage. Chrome gobbles up tons of memory as you open more tabs and browse from one page to another. Here's some tips for Windows users at least.

* Shift-Escape brings up the Chrome task manager. You can see which tabs, including all those new extensions you might be adding, are consuming which amounts of memory. Closing tabs will release some memory.  

There is no sensible reason to keep using Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft is up to IE8, and IE 6 is not standards compliant, fast or safe. It takes extra work to test a site for it, yet many people still use it. If you are a web developer and need to test a site for IE6 compatibility, you can still install it on Windows XP or do other tricks to have it available.

Here's an alternative way to test according to Elbert F, at http://elbertf.com/:  

For a Firebug-like add-in to IE6 and 7, you can install Microsoft's Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. The Firebug add-in for the Firefox browser helps in understanding and fine-tuning complex web pages, even those presented by Drupal and other content management systems. Installing the Developer Toolbar for IE provides similar features.  

I'm addicted to Firefox's keyboard shortcuts. You can open a new window, enter the address of a website and close the window without moving your hands out of QWERTY position.  

Use Firefox smart keywords to make it easier to use your favorite search engines to find what you need faster.  Takes about a minute to add a web site to your Smart Keywords list, and then you have an easy way to search websites right from the browser Location bar (where you usually have to type the whole web address).