Time to switch from Firefox to Chrome. Is everything available?

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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'm yet to find an AdBlocker up to the standard of Firefox's. I have seen AdBlock Plus avaiable for Chrome but a quick test of a few video streaming sites (livestream, youtube etc.) provided less than desirable results.
 
I started using Chrome at the start of the year because I was having issues with FF crashing every time I tired to play a video on YouTube:

Ad blocker - ABP + is available for Chrome, it's not as good as the FF but getting there.

1Password - Is supported, but I don't use it much so can't comment on how well.

SelectiveCookieDelete - Not sure

Bookmark sync - Yes

Tab Mix Plus - There's no TMP equivalent on Chrome, you'd probably need to find multiple add ons to do everything.

Custom searches? I don't know.
 
Tried the smooth scrolling extension? I was using Chrome for over a year but Firefox 4 is a lot better, it's nice having all the extensions back.
 
I'm liking the speed of Chrome but I'm finding the limitations very frustrating and searching around it seems some of them simply can't be tweaked.

Margaret, I did a quick search on smooth scrolling extension for firefox and it finds a few. Which specific one do you mean please.
 
MrMoonX said:
does chrome also make the mbp use the nvidia graphics like firefox, cos its damn annoying and rinses the battery
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Yes it does, only Safari doesn't. Although to be fair nits Apple's implementation of dynamic switching that is poor rather than a browser issue.
 
Feek said:
I'm liking the speed of Chrome but I'm finding the limitations very frustrating and searching around it seems some of them simply can't be tweaked.

Margaret, I did a quick search on smooth scrolling extension for firefox and it finds a few. Which specific one do you mean please.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/yet-another-smooth-scrolling/

Try that out it's the one I used to use, I don't *think* I have it installed on my MB but will have to check later, I used to use it on my PC and there's some good options.

My main issue with Chrome is the adblock, it doesn't block video ads so I got tired of having to sit through 30 second ads on some websites. :( The Firefox adblock+ version totally wipes them all out so far.

There's also an addon for Firefox that turns the address bar into an omnibar like Chrome, so that's the main thing I liked about Chrome in Firefox now. :)

Edit: Actually Firefox has a built in smooth scrolling in the options, can't remember exactly where but trying giving that a go
 
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Feek this may or may not be of interest to you but chrome supports full screen mode (seeing is believing) and also tab expose - it's very sexy.

Type about:flags in the search box then enable "Tab Overview" and click Relaunch Now (at the bottom) then when it restarts press shift+command+F for fullscreen mode. You can then use a 3 finger swipe down to see the tabs open in an expose style view. Pretty damn awesome.

Kind of a preview of what Lion is going to bring to the table I think.
 
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