I’ve always said that the one thing holding me back from switching from FireFox to Google Chrome was the lack of extensions. I rely on GMail Manager, EchoFon (formerly TwitterFox) and the Google Reader Notifier to be my eyes and ears during my browsing sessions, and I feel lost if I don’t have a browser that supports them. Today, I came across a blog post on OMG! UBUNTU! which describes 5 new Chrome plugins . . . including ones which replace all of the ones above. So I’m trying it.

One week on Chrome, at home and at work, and I should know pretty quickly whether I can stick with it or not. There will be other extensions I’ll miss, doubtless (AdBlock Plus, FlashBlock I’m looking at you), but I’m hoping the increased snappiness of Chrome will make up for them. Besides, I’ve been meaning for ages to set up my personal web proxy to strip out ads there . . .