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zeroality
06-28-10, 04:12 AM
Likening Version 5 to the 50 year old mistress that suddenly gains a lot of weight, I decided to dump it and go back to my trusty housewife, Firefox.

However, I liked how pretty and useful my little mistress was so I asked my wife to put on some makeup and shiny earrings.

This is how she looks now:

http://pokemontopaz.net/zero/firefox-chromified.png

All nonsense aside, Chrome 5 was horrible for me so I've switched back to Firefox. I prefer Chrome's look and some of its functionality though, so I went a little plugin-crazy on Firefox and totally transformed it.

The second toolbar below my bookmarks toolbar is a new web developer utility that a friend recommended. I haven't had time to play around with it much yet but some of the features look pretty cool.

Quinn
06-28-10, 04:17 AM
howdga do that to firefox? that looks good! "I gotta meat your girl"

SilentSentinel
06-28-10, 04:45 AM
"I gotta meat your girl"

Spelling awkwardness. Anyway, I have both, and often switch in between them. I think I'm going to start using Firefox more due to some cool changes on OI that will allow simple C/Ping from profiles that works for Firefox users.

neon.Barnacle
06-28-10, 05:39 AM
For a while I gave Chrome an honest chance at being my default web browser, but Chrome simply does not like streaming videos, and privacy options were limited so I found it difficult to fully customize it to my liking. Plus the fact that Firefox still has loads more add-on versatility... I had no choice but to leave Chrome behind.

zeroality
07-01-10, 10:11 AM
howdga do that to firefox? that looks good! "I gotta meat your girl"
Chromifox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8782/) - The skin to closely emulate Chrome's look.

Download Statusbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26/) - Similar to Chrome, downloads stuff to status bar.
Copy and Go (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6876/) - Closest thing I could find that was like Chrome's "paste and go" function.
Compact Menu (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4550/) - Gets rid of the file menu bar and compacts it into a dropdown by browser buttons.
Duplicate This Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/156490/) - Duplicates tabs like Chrome can.

Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/) - A must for the web.
Linkification (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190/) - Turns text urls into clickable links. Useful on boards such as GameFAQs or text FAQs themselves.

Web Developer (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/) - The web developer toolbar.
Firebug (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843/) - A tool similar to Chrome's dev tool (Inspect Element on right click).