I was having issues getting the GMail Chat/Google Talk feature to display in my GMail account. It would display in Internet Explorer just fine but Firefox treated it as if it did not exist! Then I started browsing the help section of GMail, and to my surprise they already have a very extensive section on using the Chat capabilities.

Google is making it easy for users of Internet Explorer 7 to make Google their default search engine. Once visiting Google in IE7 you will see a pop-up box in the upper right corner of your window. If you click on the "Make Google my search" button then it will download and run a small executable that will 'patch' Internet Explorer for you. This seems like a nice feature to me -- nice job Google!

I tried Opera 9 Technology Preview 2 (TP2) almost all day yesterday, and all I got was frustration from using it. It does have a smooth interface and the widgets seem to fit in quite well, but there are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed. The one bug that would keep me from using it as my primary browser has to do with GMail.