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Foxmarks! - Shayna

Foxmarks Bookmark Sync - Denise from twhirl

Mouse gestures keep me from going Chrome...but I did just Chrome-out my FF. - Paul Arterburn

Firebug. by, like, a mile. - Brett Kelly from twhirl

Firebug by, like, two kilometers - Jorge Escobar

Firebug - Roberto Bonini

Inline Definitions - Kamath (नमः)

Adblock - Daniel J. Pritchett

webdev toolbar, or just dom inspector. - Rob Diana

A fourth for Firebug, except with YSlow attached! - Aaron Krug

TabMixPlus. Louis, some day they'll make a vaccine for Fanboyitis. - Cyndy

Webdev toolbar - Ian May

My runner up is flashblock - Daniel J. Pritchett

Delicious Bookmarks - mrshl

Shareaholic, Better Flickr, Fire.fm, vi.sualize.us and Greasemonkey - Kol Tregaskes

Tab Mix Plus, though that's hardly the only one I couldn't live without. - Eric P

Delicious and Tabs Open Relative - Bluesun 2600 from twhirl

delicious - Mrinal Desai

facebook toolbar - Rodney Rumford

+1 Firebug. - Vamsee

who cares about new ideas. i like it that people are acting on ideas we have already had but nobody has actually made happen yet. +1 google - Tyler Gillies

Dave this is a beta release, it isn't even at Version 1.0 yet. I'm sure Firefox 1 or IE 1 were not feature rich - MarkFromIreland

I was thinking in terms of AOL. - Paul from twhirl

it's version 0.2 in fact - MarkFromIreland

I love it - Stefan Hayden

If you read the comic, they were more worried about memory/performance than features. This is meant to be an app platform. - Brad Nickel

And if stability and performance are delivered, then I am a happy happy customer! - Brad Nickel

I thought being able to drag a tab out and back in again was interesting (don't know why I would do it, but interesting) - JSNFLMNG

all the new ideas are working behind the scenes. At least that's what the comic told me. :) - Rahul Das

When will Firefox assimilate all of the goodness contained in Chrome? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Says the guy who's built what, FlickrFan? More evidence of how out-of-touch Winer is with technology. - abacab

You're all making excuses -- I'm looking for some EXCITEMENT -- not things that should be exciting, or would be exciting if I understood them, but things that actually are exciting -- you know -- like the web was when it first came out. - Dave Winer

You mean, like RSS, Dave? OMG, that was HAWT. Whoever came up with that is a fucking GENIUS. - abacab

So Dave, you are unsatisfied, I am satisfied and abacab is just mean. By the way abacab, ever heard of RSS? - Brad Nickel

I agree - orionstarr

Heh. Pretty sure this abacadab idiot is actually a robot, a Turing Machine, impersonating an asshole, and doing a pretty damned good job! Anyway, I hope Google comes up with something interesting, for now no reason to switch from Firefox. - Dave Winer

I do agree with Dave on this. Google, once a trend-setter, now looks more like a trend-follower. IMO this is part of lifecycle of any company, even what many thought was one of the most innovative companies. They took many already ideas and redndered them slick, neat, slightly different here and there and a little bit faster. Then they attached Google name to it and here it goes with all the fuss and buzz that the Google brand brings about! - Hayk H.

I'm composed entirely of RSS. Go figure. - abacab

Dave: Chrome is to browsing what Twitter was to blogging. Twitter didn't bring anything new either. Just forced us to blog 140 characters at a time, if you look at it the right way. Chrome has much cleaner UI and is much faster in my first hours of tests. - Robert Scoble

so a lower memory footprint and faster response times aren't exciting? man. I wish I lived in a world with hardware that was so fast that everything was already awesome when it comes to browser speed and memory usage. - Jason B.

I'm totally loving Chrome - once it gets beefed up with my favorite plugins it'll become my default browser. - Chrimmus Tad

New ideas are nice and all so long as they are good but if old ideas are not broken then there's no need to fix them. - Kol Tregaskes

I want to try it too. :( - Fa La La La Lindsay

Maybe we should give Google time. They probably will add more things to it. It does look like any other browser, but it is fast. - Molly, "sorry"

Yeah, it's totally dull. Blazingly fast, simple, and stable. How boring. (Wait, you said *Microsoft*? Sure that's the right metaphor?) - Peter Kirn from twhirl

disagree, task manager in browser is huge. Now I can kill pesky tabs without losing all other tabs - sean percival

Was search original? No! Was Adsense original? No! Was gmail original? No! But they just did it better. The same with Chrome. They just do it better! - Gavin

It's dull as a browser but potentially exciting as a cross device application platform. All the typical built-in browser goodness will be in applications run like any other program. What's under the hood is hidden, but is what we should be looking at. - Todd Hoff

@Robert Scoble - chrome does have a cleaner UI than IE/FF - but i still think the Safari UI is a nicer experience. - Steven Livingstone-Pérez from twhirl

very fast... also 10tabs in FF was 213mb, with 10 seperate chrome instances it was 243mb.. but then when I close one, I get it all back. - Jez Arnold

@Steven: Too bad that Safari will never be ported over to Linux. But Chrome will be. - Wizetux

"I don't care if there's one fewer cool feature. I just want this product to be ROCK SOLID" - Page 11 - Google Chrome Book. http://www.google.com/googleb... - RAD Moose