Day 1:

I’ve only played around a bit with Chrome and Chromium so far, so I wanted a closer look at the browser. I always did miss things that I had in Firefox, but as I like to give new things a chance (and can’t stand no changes ) I managed to dig up some plugins so Chromium would fit my needs. So let’s see how it compares to Firefox.

First impressions:

• It’s pretty fast
• changed the window decoration so it is rendered by Gnome instead of Chromium
• pumped it with extensions
• Some userscripts not working correctly, would like greasemetal for Linux right now

Plugins / Extensions:

Luckily the Chrome plugins work in Chromium like a charm:

• Chromed Bird twitter client
• Greasy Thug modify pages with java script
• Popchrom paste predefined snippets from shortcuts (like: ilu CTRL+ENTER becomes: I love you my dearest sweet heart and I am so much looking forward to see you again)
• Too Many Tabs so you don’t get lost in too many tabs
• Webpage Screenshot screenshot whole websites locally
• Web Developer very valuable plugin for webdesign and development

Download:

• Chromium for Windows (get newer versions here: daily trunk)
• on Ubuntu just do: apt-get install chromium-browser