Seems, Chrome team has finally gotten to optimize for the Mozilla Kraken. The gains in other benchmarks are about 10%. Nevertheless all progress is good, may be all this optimization will trickle down to some real world speed.

One of the worst things about Buzz is, even if you opt not to get started with Buzz, you are still drafted in, and all your contacts with Gmail addresses are your followers. The user is specifically opting not to try the feature, but it is still activated with broad privacy implications. And, there are no clear guidelines on how to make sure your contacts are private again, after turning off buzz from the gmail footer. I guess, its time for me to switch over to some other email provider.

Finally, the year of Linux desktop is coming. Even malware authors are taking notice and creating trojans and sneakware, so indeed linux adoption is up, yay!