My eyes were feeling a bit tired today so I installed the Stylish extension and an excellent style called "NightShift - eye care" that changes all colours and even dims images. Another reason to stick with Firefox.

I also installed this Zenburn Windows XP Theme (zip) based on one by Jason McBrayer. Zenburn is a low contrast colour scheme originally for Vim.

Now it's like my eyes are resting in a pool of cooling grey.

I continue to be addicted to Firefox largely because of the following extensions:

Adblock Plus - development of the original adblock stalled a long time ago. I have barely seen a banner since 2001, and wonder how others cope.

FireGestures - Once you learn gestures, everything else is too slow. I've been through several other gesture extensions, and this one is the current favourite, although I do have to switch off a lot of options.

British English Dictionary - It's easy to forget to install your language variant dictionary, as US English is so often the path of least resistance.

Custom Download Manager - I like downloads in a tab not in a separate window.

Undo Closed Tabs Button - A tiny change, but so useful. Other tab options are available.

NoScript - For security and annoyance avoidance, turning off javascript is often a good idea.

Firebug - the last word in web development awesomeness.

Honourable mention to Live HTTP Headers and User Agent Switcher which I install when called for.

Google Chrome has arrived. They've used many of the best user interface features from Firefox 3 (for example the amazing address bar auto-completion) and combined it with an already highly impressive speed and finesse for a first beta, to rival that of Opera

Here's the five features I instantly miss from Firefox 3

• adblock plus
• noscript
• / keyboard shortcut for quick find
• the ability to move the bookmarks toolbar to next to the address bar (but that might change because you can hide the bookmarks toolbar for open tabs)
• delicious plugin

I would miss FireGestures, except I'm using StrokeIt which works with any application.