I'm thinking that it's time to make the switch from Firefox. I've had no real issues with Firefox in the past, in fact it's always been my browser of choice but I'm not very keen on the current version. For the first time ever I'm finding it a bit slow, scrolling has little pauses and jumps and overall I'm not keen any more.
I don't particularly like Safari so I'm thinking that I'll settle on Chrome but there are a few things it has to be able to do before I make the change. I need absolute equivalents of the following addons.
Ad blocker - I currently use Adblock Plus 1.3.6. There has to be a good equivalent.
1Password - I think there's already support?
SelectiveCookieDelete - I'm not anal about cookies but I have a default core of sites that I keep cookies for and everything else is deleted when I exit my browser. Is there an extension (or whatever they're called in Chrome) that I can use to do this?
Bookmark sync - I currently sync my bookmarks using Xmarks. I see there's an Xmarks for Chrome, can I use this to transfer all my current open tabs in Firefox over to Chrome?
Tab Mix Plus - I use this to persist tabs between sessions and control the width of tabs and to have tabs in rows. Is there an equivalent on Chrome? I don't want a scrolling tab bar, I want rows of tabs with the tabs themselves at specific widths. Also, I have to have tabs automatically persist whenever I close and reopen the browser.
Custom searches? I have a handful of search engines configured in Firefox, Google UK, IMDB, QRZ.com, youtube and Wikipedia. Can I add these?
Are all these things do-able?
I don't particularly like Safari so I'm thinking that I'll settle on Chrome but there are a few things it has to be able to do before I make the change. I need absolute equivalents of the following addons.
Ad blocker - I currently use Adblock Plus 1.3.6. There has to be a good equivalent.
1Password - I think there's already support?
SelectiveCookieDelete - I'm not anal about cookies but I have a default core of sites that I keep cookies for and everything else is deleted when I exit my browser. Is there an extension (or whatever they're called in Chrome) that I can use to do this?
Bookmark sync - I currently sync my bookmarks using Xmarks. I see there's an Xmarks for Chrome, can I use this to transfer all my current open tabs in Firefox over to Chrome?
Tab Mix Plus - I use this to persist tabs between sessions and control the width of tabs and to have tabs in rows. Is there an equivalent on Chrome? I don't want a scrolling tab bar, I want rows of tabs with the tabs themselves at specific widths. Also, I have to have tabs automatically persist whenever I close and reopen the browser.
Custom searches? I have a handful of search engines configured in Firefox, Google UK, IMDB, QRZ.com, youtube and Wikipedia. Can I add these?
Are all these things do-able?