My experiences with Google "Let's make tabs pop out of windows constantly" Chrome hasn't exactly been joyous, but if there's one thing that could tempt me back to the flock, it's the promise of getting to stare at Bayonetta all day while I do my regular browsing. Google Chrome's recently updated itself to include new themes, some of which happen to be videogame ones.
Bayonetta, Super Monkey Ball and Ratchet are all available to decorate Chrome with. They are freely available in the Themes gallery, so check them out and surf with style ... or with an erection if you choose the Bayonetta one ... and if you're me.
Anybody fancy painting their Chrome with one of these pretties?
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Also, I'll start it: Chrome>Firefox. At this point, Dale North's twittered frustrations with Firefox made me realize how terribly slow it runs in comparison to Chrome. After Dtoid received Chrome support, I gave up Firefox entirely. Now I run a browser at over half the memory cost, and it's twice as fast. Additionally, I love how Chrome sentiently updates itself without you KNOWING.
I like that they added new themes. It is always nice to have more choices.
However, there's no chance in hell I'll apply one of these themes, they just look too distracting. Besides, the default Chrome skin is pretty enough on Vista/7, sexy 'glass' look.
Same! I got Firefox the day it came out, because I loathed IE.
After years of loyal use, I was defending Firefox glitches left and right, while my friends were switching to Chrome. It took me like 2 months to wean off my add-ons (and deleting the taskbar shortcut to prevent temptation) but I'm there.
plus sometimes it'd go into "always on top" mode when maximized, which made it really annoying, since I like to know when I have new IMs.
but I really liked the speed and the design. so perhaps someday. someday.
Switched to it after Internet Explorer kept crashes on me and never looked back. It's fast, clutterless and looks beautiful on my 17" laptop screen.
Now about these themes...ew. Too much going on. I got a nice white theme going right now. Not a fan of a buncha colors all over the place and stuff.
I switched when IE went had its last major update (IE8?) because it was SLOOOOOW as hell. My computers a few years old and it to ages to load anything (even just a new empty window) on IE.
I tried both Firefox and Chrome and even in its current beta/unfinished state, Chrome was faster and more streamlined. Since then, Chrome's become even better still with more options and it's still the fastest browser out there without taxing my system.
GO CHROME!
Chrome has decent adblock built in; video download helper/flashgot - solution is to just torrent; I agree Firebug would be a loss.
Nope VDH is for HQ video stream downloading :)
Oh and never heared about adblock util for Chrome, but i'll give it a try.
ps: 90%+ Acid3 browsers are all great, because they do not need to be handled a 100 ways while building sites :)
Things I miss: better delicious integration for bookmarking and more customization options for the "New Tab".
Just take a look at FF4 concept screens, the really heavy FF-tards (there are some) are drooling over it, "Next Gen" they scream, without realising it's exactly the way Chrome has been for over a year. In six months, Google Chrome will have streamlined extension support and then we'll have another browser war on our hands. Only this time, it's unsubstantiated. I dread it already.
PS: The fraking Bayonetta Theme sucks balls, the red is driving me crazy. Good thing I don't have to restart my browser just to change a skin...
I've only had it crash once, EVER, back when it was in beta. Every time Flash crashes, I'm glad I'm not running Firefox (I would have lost all of my tabs). Javascript just cruises; it doesn't suck my CPU like FF does on JS-intensive sites like Facebook. "Duh" features that make you wonder why Mozilla hasn't followed suit: resizable text boxes, tons of vertical space, custom homepage/new tab, search/site search/url/suggestions/bookmarks/history all in one place.
I'm no Google fanboy. I think most would agree that they have too much of the market share, and that we have no need to support them. But like Gmail, Chrome is a superior product, so I made the switch.