The recent google chrome beta release caught my interest because it seems that extensions are now enabled (one had to jump through burning hoops to enable them in earlier beta builds; ok, ’twas only a command line switch, but still …;-))

I installed the latest beta from the Debian beta channel, and after installing a couple of extensions, I find chrome now offers a much better browsing experience than previous Linux builds. In order of usefulness, I installed

• adthwart (simple adblocker for chrome with more features on the way)
• gmail checker
• rss notifier
• gpdf (converts pdf links in docs to point to google docs and its conversion tool)
• Wave notifier (ok, not all that useful, but it’s still nice to have it available)

Using these extensions (available from here), I’m ready to give Chrome another try as my primary browser for a while. The speed sure is 2nd to none (esp. in the JavaScript department), and even Flash based movie playback works better than in my standard Ubuntu Firefox setup.