Google Chrome

The latest and maybe the easiest to use browser is chrome. It simple display and tabbed browsing make sense and easy to navigate.

1. Download and Install Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome
2. Download Google Chrome Channel changer: http://chromium.googlecode.com/files/chromechannel-2.0.exe
3. Run the Channel Changer and choose Dev. Click update, and then close.
4. Right click the shortcut to open Chrome (either in your taskbar or desktop), and select properties. Edit the end of the link to look like this: chrome.exe --enable-extensions
5. save and start Chrome.
6. In the top right corner, select tool wrench, select About Google Chrome. It should scan and tell you whether or not you need to update. Currenlty I'm on the dev channel and running 2.0.177.1
7. goto http://www.adsweep.org/ and click AdSweep.crx to install Adblock for your Chrome browser. It should ask you if you want to install it.
8. goto http://www.chromeplugins.org/google/chrome-plugins/ie-tab-needed-2-52.html#post8471 if you want to learn howto create an IE Tab button for Chrome (this will allow you to change the page to use the iexplore.exe engine to render the page. This is useful for sites like microsoft exchange webmail.
9. Techradar covers 10 other ways to customize Chrome: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/10-ways-to-make-chrome-as-good-as-firefox-553084
   Bookmarklets are java functions that you drag and drop onto your bookmark bar for some added function. Drag the following to your bookmark bar:
   1. Add bookmarklet to open up google bookmarks: GoogleBookMarks
   2. Detect RSS Feed
   3. Step 3 from the techradar had bookmarklets that let you access twitter quickly
10. Having Google Gmail, Calendar, and Documents accessable offline is some useful you can setup in any of your browsers by installing Gears: http://gears.google.com/# . Whenever you visit those 3 sites, in the top bar, you'll be able to click on the icon next to "settings" to enable offline content.
11. Something pretty cool with firefox was when Greasemonkey came about, it allowed users to change they way they viewed the internet. And now that comes to Chrome with Greasemetal. I haven't played with greasemetal yet, but I'm sure it will work well.

So I think that does it.