My Chrome vs. Firefox experiment is officially over. It’s been just over two weeks and while last week I sounded quite upbeat about Chrome one little thing has made me switch back to Firefox. Well not one little thing, a few things, but this was the last thing to tip me back to the Firefox side.

Through my little ‘experiment’ I was finding myself adding increasing number of extensions to my Chrome for things which were a bit more standard in Firefox. I can understand this being a good thing – having a blank slate for an Internet browser and the user being able to customize it exactly to their tastes. However when I found I couldn’t simple right-click on an image and view the image properties I got a little bit peeved.

Maybe I’m missing something, in which case point me out where I have missed this! But for work it’s quite important for me to be able to do something like that quickly. Yes, I had installed Firebug and the usual web development tools, but it’s not quite the same.

Another work related issue I was having was the inability to simply drag and drop images from a website to Adobe Photoshop. Of course there was the option to copy the image and paste into Photoshop, but like the image properties issue, it’s not quite the same.

I was almost willing to gloss over losing these simple piece of functionality purely based on the speed of Chrome and the lack of crashes. It was just that quick compared to Firefox. Opening new tabs and the website rendering in the new tab – that speed was definitely quicker than Firefox, though I didn’t sit there with a stopwatch timing it.

Having a decent web screenshot extension was another losing factor for Chrome. Fireshot is just the perfect web screenshot extension. Whereas Pixlr Grabr really can’t compete.

I’ll be more than willing to jump onto the Chrome bandwagon, when it’s developed a bit more and has lost the ‘out-of-the-box’ feeling it currently has. In the meantime I’ll stuck with my trusty Firefox and hope Mozilla can keep up with Google’s development on Chrome.