I’ve been playing with the beta builds of chromium for a while. There are not nearly as many useful extensions are there are for firefox but these have helped: Copy Without Formatting FlashBlock (there’s also this FlashBlock, not sure what the practical difference is)
I’ve been researching the value range of SSD’s. The most important thing to find out with an SSD is what controller it’s using. SSD’s with the same controller tend to have nearly identical performance characteristics. Since hdparm supports TRIM I started looking for an SSD which supported TRIM in the $100 – $200 range. Here’s …