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Polishing Chrome

September 10th, 2008 by David Bradley >> 1 Comment

polished-chrome, photo by David BradleyHaving pointed out a few of the flaws in Google Chrome recently, I thought I’d provide links to some of the tweaks and hacks that have emerged over the last few days. Others have done the same

First up, is actually only superficially related to Chrome but is definitely worth a mention. Adam Pash shows you how to make our trusty rusty friend google-chrome” rel=”nofollow”>Firefox look like Chrome with a nice new pelt. Pointless, but at least you can get the Chrome look without losing all your foxy addons.

Second one also comes via the Lifehacker site, where they explain how you can use Chrome’s pr0n mode (InCognito) to login with two different accounts to the same service, GMail for instance.

Next, Labnol reveals how to open a web page you’re viewing with Firefox in Google Chrome.

Zoli Blog highlights a new WordPress theme that can skin your blog to resemble Google Chrome, although I’m not sure why you’d want to do that, interesting nevertheless.

Chrome-Hacks.net has an interesting item on how to get the Windows-only Chrome to run under Linux/Ubuntu.

Finally, if you’ve got Chrome you’re probably wondering about polishing it. So, here’s a quick hack that involves going outdoors and using a little elbow grease.

The best place to submit Chrome feedback is at http://groups.google.com/group/google-chrome-help


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  • David Bradley // Sep 10, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    A quick update to this post – http://greasemetal.31tools.com/ now lets users use userscripts a la Greasemonkey in Firefox, except that it’s only the simplest of scripts that will work so far.