Google Chrome + Linux = Greatness (or, starting to..)

I have been using Firefox on Windows and Linux since version 0.9 and I have been satisfied. That is until I tried Google's Chrome browser on Windows. Firefox seems sluggish in comparison. So I was very excited when Google began releasing Chrome Development builds for Linux. There were a couple of deal breakers that had hindered my full conversion to Chrome on Linux. Fortunately today, I have managed to find solutions to all the problems I had. I'm going to detail how I solved my three primary issues I had:

1. Bookmark Consistency between computers.
2. Adblocking
3. No Flash (or plugin support) in Linux.

Solving these issues are by no means that difficult, but I may as well share my experience with everyone.

First off, Bookmark Consistency between my work and home PCs.

Google Bookmarks is now my primary bookmark service. In my chrome bookmark bar I only have a couple of links.

1. Bookmark a page: Bookmark
   Just drag that link to your bookmark bar and use that to create bookmarks rather then the star.
2. A link to Google Bookmarks.
3. Google Reader
4. Google Notebook
5. Google Web History

That's it..

Next..

Adblocking

The best way to do this is simply use a hosts file with all the major ad urls pointing to 127.0.0.1.

See http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ on how to set this up.

Plugins!!

This is the problem that was solved today, finally!

When running chrome add: --enable-plugins to enable flash and other plugins. It is still experimental, but I haven't had any issue using.

I have setup a keyboard shortcut in gnome open chrome using the following command: google-chrome --enable-plugins

Or, if you're using Gnome you can right click on the applications menu and choose "edit menus". Then find Google chrome and hit properties. Then in the command just --enable-plugins to the end of it.

That's it, I've officially switch to Google Chrome on Linux!