The doctor is examining a patient who is in a great deal of pain. He puts his stethoscope up to the guy's thigh and hears, "Give me $10, please! I'm desperate! I have no money, and I only need $10!"

The doctor puts his stethoscope up to the guys' knee and hears, "Please! You've got to help me! I can get by with $5, even! Just $5! Please! I haven't any money, even $5 will help."

Finally, the doctor listens to the patient's ankle, "How about $20! $15! Anything! I'm flat out of cash, please lend me something, just this once!" "Hmmm." says the doctor. "This could be serious." "What!" says the patient, alarmed. "What's wrong!?" "It appears," the doctor replies, "that your leg is broke in three places."

Google Chrome has been making huge strides recently, especially in terms of speed.  It's sandbox'd nature also is a huge benefit to make exploitation difficult (not impossible).  The biggest lacking I've found is a NoScript like extension (similar to Firefox's).  Well there is a new extension out called NotScript for Chrome that provides at least some level of script filtering.  Of course you can use Chrome's own built-in script protection but that only gives you the option of whitelisting every single script, no matter what the source, for a given site, or block them all.  NotScript, at least for a first release, appears to offer at least some added protection while still giving the fine grained control that NoScript gave us in Firefox.

You can grab a copy over at Google Extensions.

Is that a zombie on the right?

1) If you can, use the open source driver.  This works far better for tearing.  Reasons not to are:

a) Using a system where you want power management for either temperature control or power saving

b) You have an HD 5xxx series radeon

2) Enable textured video syncing(in /etc/X11/xorg.conf):

Section "Device"

..............

Option      "TexturedVideoSync" "on"

EndSection

3) Enable vertical syncing(in /etc/X11/xorg.conf):

Section "Device"

................

Option      "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
EndSection

4) Install Compiz (this is a big one).  Compiz has a video acceleration plugin which works wonders for reducing tearing and jumpiness.  Very effective.

1. First make sure you back up the existing radeon (radeon_drv.so) and ati (ati_drv.so) drivers.

2. Install the xorg-dev, mesa-dev, and xserver-dev packages for your distro. The usual build tools are needed too (autoconf, automake, libtool, gcc and others)

3. git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati

4. cd xf86-video-ati

5. ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr

6. make

7. sudo make install or make install as root