First, a easy way to block ads in Chrome… it's from Lifehacker Australia… I haven't tried it, but it looks like it could be a pretty tight solution and work for other browsers, too, since it uses a local proxy. [link]
And second, Chrome themes seem to be broken now… with an update to Chrome… not sure when this exactly happened, but it did. Likely enough some themes have been updated, but not you won't put a hole through your monitor when Chrome keeps crashing when you use a custom theme.
Mirror: (direct download, by Zonator.com): a tool for Google Chrome, although it seems to work for Firefox and Internet Explorer, too. What it consists of is an always-on-top box that you can drag links and tabs from Firefox onto and it will open them with your program of choice. From the readme: "While using Chrome, Google's new browser, we found that a lot of sites sites don't work, due to missing plugins for the new platform." OK, and you can open them in another browser with Mirror. Handy. Maybe.
CrossOver Chromium: Can't wait to try Chrome on Mac or Linux? Wine makes it possible. Check it out.
Chrome themes: Hack your Chrome! Also, check out this blog post for instructions on installing the themes.
Cheers!
Yes, despite being sick, I shall put up some posts. =)
I recently tried out the Avant Browser again. It is actually a shell to Internet Explorer, something I already knew, but a very impressive shell at that. The interface seem fairly cluttered, but it is brimming with features. Useful features, at that. Some of them are: mouse gestures, an ad blocker (which seems to have a preloaded list! woot!), add-ons and IE add-ons support, and an online browser data storage service (Bookmarks, RSS Feeds, AutoFills). Also interesting and kind of cool is the ability to display multiple web pages at once; in windows inside the browser, really. I remember someone saying a browser that could display multiple pages at once would win them over. Well, there you go. Pretty easy, too, just cascade or tile horizontally or vertically.
The reason I uninstalled it again this time (though I reinstalled it to write this)? It kept setting IE as my default browser. But it doesn't seem to be doing that now… hmmm.
Google's released the first beta of their browser, Chrome, on September 2. Of course, it might be in beta for years, but anyway... the browser's features and some of what's under the hood were known the day before from a comic that was leaked onto the internet. The comic has since been released by Google. Google then released the browser a day early.
