I still use firefox. I know it's a little silly to post on a blogspot site that I don't have full faith in google to play nice, but I trust mozilla, and I know what it's doing. Plus, it still uses metaphors I've grown to love, like urls, menus with words, and so on. I know it's very 1993 of me, but it's what I expect from a user interface. Due to paranoia, I log out of google except to use their services, which I pop in, work, pop out. You're unlikely to 'hang out' with me in plus.
Using Firefox, there are a few addons that I prefer to use. Apart from some utility types (show ip/dns information for all pages), the ones I most commonly install are adblock plus (the internet is a very different place with this disabled) and Do Not Track Me. One thing I've started noticing is that the number of tracking requests being blocked seems to go down about 50% when ads are being blocked. I guess one or the other is effective in decreasing the noise to signal ratio, and the combination playing off each other seems particularly effective.
