Chrome Stole my heart

Today marks a very important day in my internet browsing experience. I have made the push to start using the Chromium web browser over its Firefox counterpart. Why? Well, let me explain..

Firefox hasn’t always been my favourite browser. The fact is, I never really loved any of them. There was always something that bothered me about one of them. Of course, being a web designer, I use all of them extremely often, unfortunately. I used Opera for quite some time (3+ years), before getting fed up with the slow start times (though it did excel in page loading for a long long time).

I made the push to Chromium about the same time as the Chrome Web Store was released. Lots of great applications, extensions, and themes all in one place.

There was something else that bothered me with Chrome. It was the way GitHub styles their code font. It just looked extremely ugly in Chrome, though fine in Firefox or Opera. Luckily installing the Stylebot extension meant I could customize any webpage I wished, and stylebot saved my CSS for the next time I visited the page. Neat, right?

Once I used Stylebot to change the font to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, it looked much much nicer. It may be such a subtle difference to many people, but I spend a lot of time reading code on GitHub, and this really really frustrated me. It’s nice to see how easy it can be customized.

I’ve taken some time to read over a few of the hot looking applications on the Chrome web store, and I think it’s certainly something to keep an eye on in the future.