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Google Chrome (free web browser)
A web browser to replace Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox. Provides bookmark, password, extension and tab syncing across systems, is very fast and standards compliant, has built-in Flash and PDF readers, silent auto-updates, has lots of new technology and is pushing forward the boundaries of web browsing while staying more secure than the competition. I use this application more than anything else installed on my systems. Based on the open source Chromium.
Adblock Plus: By preventing the display of ads, Adblock Plus makes browsing the web less taxing on both your computer and your sanity.
Catblock is even better!
Web Cache: When you meet 404 not found, you may find web cache with this extension.
Correspondingly, Mozilla Firefox.
Similar to Google Chrome/Chromium, and has many of the same features. Each of those two browsers will suit some people better than it suits others, e.g. I always have many many tabs open, and I find that having more than 10 tabs open in Chromium is hard to use (tabs get unreadably small) and eats all my memory, while Firefox is nicer on both of these aspects. (I'm sure other use-cases suit Chrome better.)
(On that note, Firefox has had a bit of a reputation as a slow memory hog compared to Chrome, but that's no longer true.)
Hover Zoom: Enlarge thumbnails on mouse over. Works on many sites (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Reddit, Amazon, Tumblr, etc).
While the subject of browsers is being floated, does anyone have any good recommendations on how to sensibly achieve two or more concurrent sets of browser data on the same machine?
I have multiple accounts on a few different sites (for generally benign reasons), and I manage this by having one set of logins/cookies/history on Chrome and one set on Firefox. It's a bit of an elaborate assignment problem, especially if I need to maintain three concurrent active accounts in one place.
It would be extraordinarily helpful to have multiple instances of Chrome on one machine (like a Red Chrome, a Blue Chrome and a Green Chrome), which would allow me to keep them separate, but over a consistent environment.
Open the Google Chrome settings page, look for the heading 'Users' and click 'Add New User'.
You can also use Google Chrome Canary, which will be an entirely separate installation of Chrome with its own independent directory.
Thank you.
Firefox has a concept of "profiles" too. (I don't know how effective they are, or if you can have multiple running at once.)
Flashblock equivalent: in Settings, click 'Show Advanced Settings', under Privacy, click 'Content Settings', scroll down to Plug-ins and select 'Click to play'
Thank you for posting this. I'm a long time Firefox user but lately I've been curious about Chrome. Your recommendation gives me the impetus to try it.