I am spending a lot of time browsing the web. For work and private pleasure. Aspects like speed and the ability to customize my browser in order to save time while doing my usual tasks in a browser are very important to me.
I have been using Firefox for many years now because it always served this purpose really well. But I have always had an eye on Google Chrome as as an alternative browser.
Google promised higher speeds and the ability to customize your browser with useful extensions which was always the strong point of Firefox. The problem was that Google Chrome was just not developed enough to actually be a real alternative for me as a Mac user. Not until now.
I gave Google Chrome another try over the last couple of days and decided to stick with it now since it now has all I need to make my life surfing the net easier.
The big advantage of the browser in my opinion are the extensions, or the add-ons to individualize your browser and the really significant increase in speed in comparison to Firefox.
So without any delay, here are the extensions I am using. I hope you will find them useful.
- AdBlock: Great to block out all the annoying ads on sites. Very customizable and easy to use.
- Chromed Bird: Easy to use and nicely integrated Twitter client to make your tweeting as easy as can be.
- Facebook: All you need to manage Facebook through Google Chrome.
- Shareaholic: One stop shop for all sharing services on the web with only a few clicks you can easily share information to all sort of networks and use a number of great services. This safes me a lot of time every day.
- Turn of the Lights: The entire page will be fading to dark, so you can watch to a video as if you are in the cinema. Really nice.
- Notifier for Google Wave: If you are using Google Wave and Chrome than this is very handy.
Overall impressions
Google has really improved the browser over the past months and I will now use it as my day to day browser. Some things are still missing but I am sure these will be added in some form or another.