When I first tried Google Chrome, it was amazing. Blazing fast, no comparison to firefox. Then I noticed there was no ad blocker, so I quickly went back to firefox. Then when chrome's API for extensions came out, an ad blocker called adsweep came out for the hourly development builds, called chromium. Now I beleive addons work with the latest beta version if you do the commandline argument "--enable-extensions". It's easy anough to make a batchfile to do this for you, so I thought I would be happy. Nope. Problem is, my Firefox is tricked out with loads of addons, not just adblock plus, like video downloadhelper, lastpass, twitterfox, and a cool form recovery tool called Lazarus. Plus I have personas, allowing me to change firefox's "skin" without restarting. Then there's the firefox interface that I'm used to and...everything.
I doubt that I will ever switch, since firefox 3.5 (still in beta) seems to be getting closer to chrome in speed.
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If anyone wanted the batchfile, here it is, just type it into notepad and save as chrome.bat, selecting all files from the dropdown.
ReplyDelete@ECHO OFF
start chrome --enable-extensions
EXIT