Why I'm using Chrome now, and loving it:

[sobrique]

Chrome is:
Fast and lightweight.
I can stack and unstack tabs easily.
It supports gestures, adblock, flashblock. (JS Blocking it does, but that stops gestures working).
Chrome to Phone is awesome.
Application shortcuts and google gears are great for netbooks. (Especially gmail, but calendar supports gears as well) - I have a 'gmail' application shortcut, that runs GMail offline, with my mail auto-syncing to it. And sharing with all my other devices - android phone, desktop PC and work laptop.
There is a livejournal plugin.

Comments

[erjholton.livejournal.com]

Why I'm not using Chrome right now, even though I would prefer to:

NoScript.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

It's not something I'm that fussed about, but because someone I know is, I've found that 'noscript' doesn't exist for Chrome, because it's irrelevant.
Options -> Under the bonnet -> Content settings
Javascript:
Has option to allow/disallow javascript.
Also allows exceptions to exist - will pop up a 'script was blocked' thing in the title bar, to say 'allow'. I _think_ it even lets you customize allowable javascript patterns, but I've not really played with it.

[erjholton.livejournal.com]

I've tried that, and the controls Chrome gives are nowhere near as good or as fine-grained as NoScript allows. I found that if you allowed Chrome to run JavaScript to run on a page, then it would allow all scripts to run on that page, regardless of domain. NoScript tells you what domains are running scripts on that page, and lets you block them individually.

For example, right now NoScript is telling me that this exact page wants to run scripts from:

sharethis.com
outboundlink.com
keewurd.com
scorecardresearch.com
livejournal.com

and I can tell NoScript to enable or disable JavaScript on any of those domains.

Chrome's JavaScript blocking just allows me to opt to run scripts or not to run scripts. Not good enough, in my opinion, so I continue to run with FireFox.

Now, if something like that was to appear on Chrome, I'd be all over that browser like a rash.

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

I've been using Chrome for sometime, and while there are a few things I miss from FireFox I find it so much stabler and faster. Plus proper pull off/on tabs is a killer feature. I just want an option for When I say open new windows as tabs I bloody well mean it, no your website is not special.

[gingerboy.livejournal.com]

I've just found One Windows, which does the "new window opens as a tab" thing (to a certain extent):
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/papnlnnbddhckngcblfljaelgceffobn

[gingerboy.livejournal.com]

I'm a big Chrome fan too - I'm so used to moving my tabs around as I like now that if I use IE it just irritates me :-)

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

The trouble with One Windows is that it kills the ability to pull off tabs which is one of the key features that Chrome does well (FF will do it now, but it doesn't do it properly - it reloads the page to do it)

[gingerboy.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'd not tried it out myself, so didn't know it had that flaw. That's a shame!

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I looked into modifying it to do what I wanted but I couldn't get it to work. Another key feature Chrome is missing - the ability to disable gif animation by default - I managed to modify an existing extension to do.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

There's loads I like about Chrome, but it's still way slower for searches & page loads than Firefox, and its autocomplete function is complete rubbish too.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Really? I'd found the opposite - out of the box, I find firefox to be particularly sluggish, and chrome much less so.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Nah, Chrome is slower for me, even if I have like 30 tabs open in Firefox and only one in Chrome!

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Particularly for all the various websites that like to open new windows - being able to 're-stack' the ones I want to keep is great.

[malal.livejournal.com]

There's NotScript, which nearly does it. Except if you read the notes, there's a sodding huge hole in it.

Basically, it can't block in-line JavaScript on the page it's loading, only the built in controls can do that.

[malal.livejournal.com]

The no mouse gestures with proper JS blocking is a bit of a killer for me.

However, nothing on Firefox will handle RSS feeds in a useful way. They all seem to take the built in support as a base, which doesn't honour things like existing forum logins. Chrome has good RSS readers which will. Though, annoyingly, they won't honour things like add blocking on the feeds themselves.

So I use two browsers regularly. Firefox for standard browsing, Chrome for RSS feeds & for when FF doesn't like something. Two monitors FTW.

TBH, seeing how much better Opera runs on the Ubuntu netbook than on Windows, I'd be tempted to go back. But Desktop is Fedora, and Opera doesn't have a yum repository, which these days is a must for me.