Yummy, I've been rocking the extensions for a while now on dev and it's been the thing that finally converted me away from Firefox permanently(read until 4.0 anyway).
Lots of extensions makes it very, very clear that we need a way to customize the toolbar. 75% of the extensions out there are pretty much glorified bookmarklets at the moment too.
I tried Chrome with extension support when it was in beta, and I immediately abandoned it because the UI clutter was so fucking terrible with extensions that I simply could not tolerate it (see: my gripe on Twitter).
I'll give Chrome another try the day I can: A) Control where it's being installed and B) Wrangle the UI so that it doesn't look like an icon factory barfed all over the program.
I run my regular Google apps in Chrome and just about everything else in Firefox. I'm not sure what it would take to change that, but it's certainly not the inclusion of extensions which should have been there to begin with.
I'll give Chrome another try the day I can: A) Control where it's being installed and B) Wrangle the UI so that it doesn't look like an icon factory barfed all over the program.
What I do really like about it is that they seem to be really low impact on the browser, unlike most Firefox extensions and you can install, disable and uninstall without any restarting. Makes special extensions I need for specific tasks a lot more manageable to disable and enable on the fly. Icon factory barfed though is exactly the right term.
Thrax
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I'll give Chrome another try the day I can: A) Control where it's being installed and B) Wrangle the UI so that it doesn't look like an icon factory barfed all over the program.
What I do really like about it is that they seem to be really low impact on the browser, unlike most Firefox extensions and you can install, disable and uninstall without any restarting. Makes special extensions I need for specific tasks a lot more manageable to disable and enable on the fly. Icon factory barfed though is exactly the right term.