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[coraa]

Google Chrome looks really interesting. Assuming the description/explanation is correct, it has some major performance advantages, and some truly nifty unique features.

The problem? I have a lot of Firefox extensions. More importantly, there are a lot of Firefox extensions that I use and rely on daily. It's entirely possible that Chrome will have some type of add-on capability, now or eventually, but even if so, all my shiny extensions won't be there out of the box.

I'll probably download Chrome and play with it, and I guess we'll see whether its advantages are worth giving up my nifty extensions.

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[thegreatgonz.livejournal.com]

I'm curious- what extensions do you rely on having?

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Here are the ones I use most commonly (anywhere from 'every day' to 'once a week'):

* del.icio.us link saving/tagging from a buttonclick.
* DownThemAll, an application that enables mass filterable downloading (for instance, if I want to grab all the .mp3s linked from a page, or all the images, or whatever, with one dialog/command).
* LiveJournal Addons, which does fun things like automatically unfold pages with more comments than will display, notifies me when I have new messages, and tells me of upcoming birthdays in my statusbar
* Greasemonkey, and various scripts (for instance, one that allows me to killfile people on various blogging sites, if I don't want to see their posts, and another that simplifies LJ tagging)
* Stylish, which gives me some control over how various ugly-but-useful websites display to me
* Adblock Plus
* TabMix Plus, which does fun things with tabs (though it's possible Chrome already does those things natively; I haven't looked)

And there are a few more that I only need occasionally (the Firefox eBay Companion, the save-a-flash-file-from-YouTube-locally add-on) but that I'd miss if I did want them and they weren't there.

[thegreatgonz.livejournal.com]

I use TabMix Plus in Firefox, and haven't noticed the absence in Chrome. Then again, saving tabs between sessions and reorganizing tabs (and the individual close boxes) are all I really use it for, and Chrome can do all of those. Your mileage may vary.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Right now, the weight of the decision is in whether the performance enhancements to Chrome are worth giving up the fact that I can (and, more importantly, have) customized Firefox to within an inch of its life to suit me specifically. It's possible they will -- I'm not fond of the memory-hogging FF does -- but we'll see.