I've been using Chrome ever since it was released. It's great, I have all my favorites synced up on my laptop, ipad, and cell phone. Just makes life easy. I also use firefox once in a while too, I just prefer the overall look and feel of Chrome.
And, I've kept my original AOL email account from 1995. I have a bunch of different email accounts I use for various craigslist accounts, ebay, certain sites I visit, etc. But I still use my aol account as my main one. Every once in awhile I'll hear from an old friend because I still have the same email address......but remember when you used to have to pay for that?
And with gmail going down and freaking everybody out the other day, I had no problems.