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Extending Chrome
Published by Davina | Filed under Post
Finally, Chrome has enabled extensions! I’ve pretty much exclusively been using chrome at home for about the past 6 months, but have been really noticing the lack of extensions. Especially the adblocker! I had gotten so used to using all the added features of Firefox that using chrome at first felt like taking giant steps backwards.
I will be watching with interest how the extensions progress and also keeping an eye out on how they affect the performance of Chrome. I am the kind of user who has a minimum of 20 tabs open at a time, so I’m very interested in seeing any performance issues.
As such, I’ve only put a few extensions on – the essentials as it were. Adblock, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter. Are there any extensions that are simply must haves that I’ve forgotten?
January 1st, 2010 at 5:00 pm
I have to admit, I’m still not sold on Chrome – the lack of extensions was the main reason stopping me from giving up Firefox though, so I may well give it another shot now. One extension I have noticed which seems like it’d be really handy is IE tab (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd) – if a web page is glitchy in Chrome (as so many are) it’ll open it in an Internet Explorer tab within Chrome. The google url shortener looks pretty good too https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/iblijlcdoidgdpfknkckljiocdbnlagk
January 2nd, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Oh yes! I always forget IE tab, even though I really shouldn’t.