I tried out chrome back when it was first released, but now I've decided to give it another fair shot.

Initial thoughts:

1) Extension system much improve from what it was when it first released: actually has Adblock now, and a kinda-sorta firebug (though still not as good as the real firebug)
2) Feels much snappier than Firefox.
3) Lack of / searching is really bothering me. I added an extension that tries to emulate it, but it's just not the same. If the chrome team would add / as an alias for the CTRL+F search, that would be huge, since the CTRL+F search box in chrome is pretty amazing.
4) The separate processes for each tab is very nice, and also takes advantage of multi-cores (which I don't think Firefox does, if I remember correctly).

So far, overall positive experience. I haven't messed with the User-agent yet to make sure QuakeLive runs in chrome, but QL supports Safari, so it shouldn't be a problem, they're both webkit.

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I don't do much in terms of any add-ons or visit sites with special requirements, so those limitations don't bother me with Chrome.

Just straight up browsing with Chrome, you can't beat it. It's fast, the interface isn't littered with icons and menus and infobars and all that other crap you never use. I also really like being able to tear off the tabs into new windows, or putting them back into other windows, its great for organizing when you have lots of tabs open.

Now that it's available as a beta in Linux, I've been using it from time to time. I'd use it more if it had the real firebug probably. It's pretty fast and has a lot of nice little features. I think my favorite being that when Flash crashes (which is damn near ALWAYS), it just reports that the plugin crashed and continues on about its way. In firefox, the whole thing shuts down.

It's kind of sad that Firefox has really fallen from grace. Everyone's using Webkit now, from phones to other browsers to embedded devices, etc. Firefox's Gecko engine just can't seem to keep up. I'm hopefully that Fennec will breath some new life in to Mozilla, but it's looking more and more like they should just ditch Gecko and stick with Webkit themselves...

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I think my favorite being that when Flash crashes (which is damn near ALWAYS), it just reports that the plugin crashed and continues on about its way. In firefox, the whole thing shuts down.

Yes, that is a top feature. Separate processes for each tab is nice too when something crashes.

This is another issue I've been having (and one I remember having when I first tried it back when it was first released). When maximized, the tabs are at the very top of the screen. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but I keep winamp up there above all windows in a minimal format.

Any idea if it's possible to shift the tabs down a bit such as when the window is restored, rather than maximized?

So, this is how it is right now, and this is the problem:




But I'd prefer if it were like this when maximized:





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Do it for the Lobster

Bookmark synchronization is amazing.

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Do it for the Lobster