My hope was that it'd go on sale in June and I'd be able to play over the summer. Well that isn't going to happen (obviously) but hopefully it'll be out by December :/
And it should be the top browser. Regardless of the privacy implications it's probably the fastest and due to it's sandboxing strategies the most secure browser out there. That being said Mozilla Firefox is the second best and wins for privacy.
Wait you haven't written a script on your server to do automated backups? The only thing I havn't written for backups is a script to manually trigger them from my browser (I do it from SSH and cron jobs assist with it)