Adblock is already available for both google chrome and chromium in linux, for at least a couple of months.
I've been using the chrome build in paralel with firefox, and I'm quite happy, chrome is *really* fast.

But, 5 years ago I had a Asus s5n, i had gentoo and fedora instaled, and the battery lasted more than on windows (I had some tweaks for saving battery then). Same with my current Dell D630 on Ubuntu (default)... so Battery life on linux as always worked well for me

thepiratebay.com, had this message:

We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Ifpi and all the odious apparatus of MPAA rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the ef-nets and darknets, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internets, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the baywords.org, we shall fight on the /. and on the digg, we shall fight in the courts; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, the Internets or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Anon Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Cerf's's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

I went to mininova just now, and on the front page I found:
Featured torrents:
"How to bypass mininovas copyright filter"

I'm currently working in Madrid and I have the common work schedule in here: 8.5/40 which means I work 8.5h a day and I get Friday afternoon off. I really enjoy this method and the Friday afternoon off is always respected with very few exceptions...

I get your point... but we don't really care.. how much does it take for her to learn the "new features" ? more than it took to learn windows ? I bet if i ask my grilfriend (who only uses linux) to try windows Xp installed from scratch, she will have _at least_ the very same problems.