Brian Egan makes a good case for Chrome 4 for developers, especially in comparison to Firefox with Firebug, covering Chrome’s Web Inspector, the JavaScript console, the Elements Panel, Chrome Resources and five extensions that make it invaluable for developers. There is no longer too much of a compromise if you want to go with Chrome, and though it will be awhile before you have the sheer number of add-ons available that you do with Firefox, Chrome is coming on.

Chrome for Mac first impression? It is so fast that I didn’t even see the icon bounce in the dock! Maybe I can live without my Firefox extensions.

It seems hard to believe that Google Chrome will ever have the range and depth of extensions for the browser that Firefox has. On the other hand, it is Google, and they know that even with the performance and speed of Chrome, extensions will be a major point if they really want to achieve large-scale Chrome adoption. You can be *fairly* sure that they want that, and there is now an extension gallery set up for Chrome, along with documentation on creating extensions for developers.

Google announces themes created by genius artists from around the globe, for the Chrome browser– great, although I’m so plugged into Firefox so to speak that I don’t know if I’ll know how to work my internets if I switch now…
Anyway, do ‘click to see the surprise ending’ and watch what happens 21 seconds into this little gem of a video. Just for fun on a Saturday.

OK, so Internet Explorer and HTML5 do not play well together. Google Chrome doesn’t have such limitations, and as sites incorporate HTML5 technologies like Canvas and embedded audio and video, IE users may feel like giving other browsers a shot. But what can you do if you’re at work, for instance, and can’t install Chrome? Well now there is an open-source plug-in for IE users that will let you essentially run Chrome within Internet Explorer. It’s called Google Chrome Frame and it will load a site using the same WebKit rendering engine as Chrome does. All a developer has to do to allows visitors to his site to take advantage of Frame is add one line of code to the header.
Check out this intro: