The extension manager is also pretty nice, and arguably better than the Firefox one (at least for FF 3.6.3).
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The one big hole in the extensions/add-on replacement is DownThem All! There are quite a few download managers, but none can match the Firefox one in terms of features (I am still looking). I found that FlashBlock does exist for Chrome, but I don’t really need it anymore. I also found more or less feature equivalent extensions: It has good support for Firefox like keyword searches as well (example, ‘ wk’ for Wikipedia searches) provided you set them up. The unified bar is also starting to make sense, as it actually helps in not having to remember one extra key short cut for searching. I blame it on the IE centric development though. The Inverted tabs still look odd and out of place, but I understand the need to squeeze the additional 20-30 pixels for actual page use.Īctual page rendering in terms of quality is more or less at par with Firefox, though a few oddball sites (especially the work related sites) sometimes get weird effects. The first thing which struck me was the speed of launch as well as page renders, and the UI feels much more “fluid”. And this time Chrome did have a pretty mature extensions ecosystem, some of which seemed to be reasonable replacements for the Firefox equivalents. However, with the recent launch of the stable OS X version, I became interested again. So while the beta version did stay on the HDD, it did not see much use, and Firefox remained the work horse for daily use. I was initially put off by the inverted tabs as well as lack of extensions (hey, a 21st century browser with no extensions, come on!) Also, the single URL bar/search bar UI seemed … odd. I have been toying with Google Chrome ever since the beta for OS X came out. Speed of launch and rendering are the main gripes.
This becomes excruciatingly slow when I am busily opening tabs from a RSS reader or another application – and frustrating when it has to launch the first time I click on a link in another application.Īlso, while a custom theme does look pretty – it sometimes does expose artifacts in the chrome (no pun intended) when rendering new pages – especially in the “awesome bar”.Īll in all, while the experience is nice, it certainly is not perfect. Another 2-3 seconds before any reasonable page is fully rendered.
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With just seven add-ons (Adblock Plus, XMarks, DownThemAll!, 1Password, LastPass, FlashBlock and Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X) it takes about 3-4 seconds to launch the application opening a blank home page on an OS X 10.6.3 MacBook. The sheer number of Firefox add-ons and extensions (about 13,000 in the last count) is staggering – and list absolute essentials such as Adblock Plus, XMarks and DownThemAll! This combined with the themes (I suggest GrApple Yummy on the Mac) has been making the web browsing experience a far better one for me than Safari.īut the problem with Firefox is … it is SLOW. Also, the web development support has always been far better than its competition, with Firebug and Web Developer to name just two great reasons for it being the developer’s browser of choice. I have been a long proponent and user of Firefox, having been lured into it by its relative elegance and the extension framework many moons back.
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