Google Chrome? With extensions, please. Yes, Google Chrome tastes better with extensions, if you’ve got the beta channel of course, at least for now. But let us talk about an announced fight. Contenders were friends. One was an expert, a veteran boxer yet an amateur with the wrong sponsors and in spite of that had eaten off almost the whole traffic pie from old crumbling Internet Explorer, but who still believed in open source, good will, helping people and the tooth fairy. The other was a pro, hardened in a thousand combats, trained by the best and with billions in the bank as to become his own manager. The Mozilla Firefox vs Google Chrome fight will be probably announced before expected and will catch many unawares in spite of the commercial relationship between both firms that represented more than 90 percent of the Mozilla foundation’s total revenues in 2008 (they’ve been cashing around $60 million a year from Google since the contract was extended in August that year). Mozilla will benefit from Google till November 2011, but this sudden move of announcing extensions and the whole campaign behind it sounds like they might be holding the tomahawk behind their backs while puffing the pipe of peace. Mozilla is trying to diversify their products now that they have the money and more than a 110 million Firefox users a day in a desperate attempt of finding ways to dodge the body from Google’s terrible smashing blows. And you know it is always too late when you feel Google breathing down your neck. From my end user perspective, I still had my doubts with Chrome till very recently. Yes, it is damn fast, it starts independent processes with each tab you open, it is simple but so far it was lame cause it was too dull for average users and we already had Opera for that. But now, if you download that famous Google Chrome beta launched first for Windows and Linux and now also for the Mac, you can have access to more than 300 Chrome extensions (PC and Linux machines) rapidly growing which are easier to install and much more visible than Firefox add-ons (that does not mean they work better though). So the scenario is changing and those features long claimed for the new browser are showing up blatantly under the spotlights for everyone to see. Here are five of them I would like to list so you can judge by yourselves:
Google Mail Checker 
RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) 
StumbleUpon 
Google Wave Notifier 
Chromed Bird 
