Chromey yum
I have loved the Google Chrome browser from the moment I saw it. But my main machine at home runs Ubuntu, and the only OS Chrome is properly released on as yet is Windows. So I found myself bizarrely looking forward to needing to launch Windows to play a game or develop in MSVC, since I got the side thrill of launching something shiny when it was time to look webwards.
But lately I’ve been trying the unofficial daily builds of Chromium for Ubuntu and they’re working great. Even the Flash support is getting better (and it isn’t a big deal for me because my only usecase for Flash is video, and save it all up for a single viewing session after midnight due to the unusual bandwidth charging policy of my broadband provider.)
So for day-to-day browsing, Chromium is now my default choice. Yay!
(Ironically the main time I’m not using it is when I have to swap often between multiple Google accounts - e.g. personal and Modern Mixers - when using their services; in Firefox, there’s an add-on for that. The Fox’s extensibility - Greasemonkey, Firebug - remains unchallenged, and there’s no way I could do without it at work.)
