This is probably my third time I tried to use Chromium. First time, I pulled source code and compiled it, the result wasnt good at all. Second time, I grabbed the binary package from Gentoo tree, its okay at the time. But it didnt support extension at the time. This time, I installed the binary package again. I am satisfied with its performance and almost every bit of it.

However, I am still using Firefox. I just let both browsers sit on my desktop, I mainly opened web pages in Chromium. The reason of keeping Firefox is Chromium didnt have Vimperator-like extension and I doubted a full port of Vimperator would come in near time. Chromiums API didnt allow to do many things, you couldnt have done what you could do in Firefox yet. Without Vimperator, I have to heavily rely on mouse, I have to move the cursor to click on bookmarks, that was really time wasting. (Typing in address bar isnt fast enough)

Vimperator enables you to use bookmarks keyword (which Chromiums bookmarks do not have such property, you could enter the keyword in Firefox address bar, that is a fast way to use bookmark). I have gm for Gmail, gr for Google Reader, etc. Every time, I need to read emails, I just type (I dont have to move cursor to anywhere) ogm, five keystrokes send me to my mailbox, its quick and fast. But now, I still couldnt do that in Chromium.

The only similar extension is Vimlike Smooziee1, but its just not Vimperator. I didnt even try it after I watch the video. If you are a fan of Vimperator go to star this issue2, we may have Vimperator on Chromium someday.

Beside Vimperator, I really couldnt find anything else to complain. With Firefox, I have several addons, but now I have basically only one, the RSS Subscription Extension, and two of mine, Keep Last Two Tabs and Twimonial.

I used to have AdBlock Plus, FlashBlock, Firebug, Screengrab, Zemanta, and Vimperator. I used AdBlock and FlashBlock because Firefox is really a memory hug, I dont want to have more to eat up memory. Now, I dont even worry about that. Chromium has Developer Tools, which is similar to Firebug, but Firebug is still more powerful than Developer Tools, however its good enough for me. As for Screengrab, I didnt find an alternative one to use.

Chromium is really fast and clean. I now dont have to restart the browser every a while. Firefox could easily eat up to 20% of 2G memory by just refreshing a page.

1   Update (2009-12-20)

I found out I forgot to mention one bug. The version I use is 4.0.275.0. The Chromium window will flick about three times when it gets or loses focus.

And there is another thing I just discovered, if you drag tab in Firefox to make a separate window which plays a YouTube video, the page would reload and so would the video. But in Chromium, it works smoothly, the video would be interrupted. Awesome!

[1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/donnjgnmaheadpiphiedimcjpiefdnnj is gone.
[2]http://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/issues/detail?id=139 is gone.