Dear Firefox: It's official - I've divorced you

Question

October 11, 2011
Dear Firefox:
It has been a long and, up until recently, a very happy marriage between you and me. However, your recent screw-ups have caused me to file for, and finalize, our divorce. This was done without your comment or consent, I understand; however, despite all my best efforts to penetrate your thick skull and reach you, you refused to respond. I believe my actions will be beneficial to both of us in the long run.
I suppose, now that I'm gone, you want to know "What happened? What did I do wrong?" Well, the first thing is that you failed to respond to repeated requests and statements that Firefox was becoming slow and bloated, not to mention a resource hog. Additionally, despite repeated pleas and requests for you to FIX IT, not a darn thing was done about Firefox constantly freezing, with no way to even close the window without resorting to the dreaded "ctrl+alt+del" to start task manager to shut you down and free up my system. Indeed, my fingers became fast friends with those keys in the past months. I almost know them better than I know my own name!
Now that it's over, I can hear the question you're dying to ask, so I'll ask it for you: "Is there someone else?" Why yes, Firefox, there is, and his name is Chrome. Oh, stop sniveling and crying; it makes you look like a baby instead of the supposedly grown-up browser that you should be. Unlike bloated-slow-memory-hog YOU, Chrome is sleek, and fast and - - well, all I can say is WOW - - because my system memory use remains low, and I have not had ONE browser/system freeze in the week since my secret marriage to Chrome.
I know, I know ... you plan to bad-mouth me behind my back, and try to make all my friends believe that the reason behind our breakup is all *my* fault - - when, in reality, you KNOW that I had nothing to do with it, and the fault lies in your refusal to listen to reason.
So, Firefox, it is goodbye. No, don't try to stop me; I've made up my mind, once and for all.
And, in the immortal words of Rhett Butler: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Aj7lkIHp0
Best of luck in your future relationships and endeavors,
Suz

Answer 1

Dell and beautiful in the same sentence?!?
In all seriousness, I use a 23" Cinema - now that's a beautiful display - and an older 15" HP LCD monitor (1024x768 resolution) from a PC that died recently (hehe).
If I had to do it all over again, I'd simply buy a single 30" monitor. Two monitors are nice with FCP and Color (the real estate is used effectively) but Motion, LiveType and Soundtrack Pro do not have dual monitor configurations. DVDSP does, but it's absolutely worthless (just the Palette and Inspector windows on the second screen). I know the idea of a 30" is polarizing, but considering how much space Soundtrack Pro and Motion like, it would be nice. And FCP is nice with a 30" too.
Um, sorry, got off on a tangent.
Unless you're doing hardcore work in Color - which really utilizes two widescreen monitors, I'd argue that, in a dual monitor FCS configuration, the second monitor does not have to be a widescreen one. For FCP, it'll basically house your Browser, which I always keep in List mode, so having a widescreen monitor makes little sense. If you're a Large Icon View person - or, considering you're an FCP rookie, if you become a Large Icon View person - maybe it might be worth it.
But I'd wait to get your machine, then give yourself some time to play with all the apps and see what you think will work best for you...