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Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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Re: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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albertzeyer wrote: post #8
rottencupcakes wrote: post #5

Probably the single thing that keeps me using Firefox is its address bar. It's a much nicer experience than Chrome's, with its user-friendly auto complete mechanisms. The speed of the browsers is rarely the bottleneck for me anymore. I'll switch to Chrome for intense javascript experiences, but that's about it. I feel like chrome needs to start focusing more time on the experience - these speed improvements aren't pa…

What do you mean with the address bar? Chromes bar also has autocompletion. I even find it simpler to use. In Firefox, I have to press the down-key + enter to select a suggestion. In Chrome, I just have to press enter. What do you think is missing otherwise in Chrome? I think the overall user experience is probably much better compared to Firefox in nearly all aspects.

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Re: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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Post by lftl »

jdminhbg wrote: post #27
lftl wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For everyone asking what's wrong with Chrome's URL bar, here's one specific example I run into. I go visit Google Analytics relative often. In Firefox, I can start typing analytics.. and it pulls up GA as an option very quickly. With chrome it never shows up at all, instead I have to start typing google, and it'll show up as the 3rd or 4th option. It's hard to remember all the specific annoyances, but this is one of…

I use Chrome instead of FF despite the address bar. Other annoyances: - Address you enter disappears when you hit enter, doesn't reappear until the page loads. This is a problem if the page spins for a long time; it can be indistinguishable from a total failure. - Type-ahead will occasionally find matches like "ha" -> "Hacker News" despite the address being "news.ycombinator.com" which is good, but... When you type t…

If you're on the dev channel, web inspector has improved immensely. It's seriously cut down on the amount of time I've had to spend in FF.

Great job pulling out some of the other annoyances. I've definitely been bitten by that one.

While both Chrome and FF's systems are probably better than it ever was, I still miss Galeon's old URL completion bar. It essentially behaved like tab completion in bash. So when you hit tab it completed out to the longest common match in your history. It was awesome for navigating to different parts of sites you visit often.

Re: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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Post by ube »

tvon wrote: post #40
ube wrote: post #24

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My list of things keeping from Chrome is same as yours though I'd also add lack of google gears support. I don't understand how they have that for firefox but they don't have it from Chrome. In addition to this Chrome (on the mac) crashes quite frequently for me.

Client-side HTML5 databases have supplanted gears.

Fair enough - so how do I use google docs when I'm offline?

Alternatively, would you have suggestions on some other service that provides similar doc capability with html5 database?

Re: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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Post by xiaoma »

rottencupcakes wrote: post #5

Probably the single thing that keeps me using Firefox is its address bar. It's a much nicer experience than Chrome's, with its user-friendly auto complete mechanisms. The speed of the browsers is rarely the bottleneck for me anymore. I'll switch to Chrome for intense javascript experiences, but that's about it. I feel like chrome needs to start focusing more time on the experience - these speed improvements aren't pa…

I agree with you and I rate Firefox search bookmarks as an even bigger plus. Life is short and I don't want to waste it by having to go to a site such as wikipedia or a multi-lingual dictionary first and then search and wait for a second page to load.

Re: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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Post by mgw »

ErrantX wrote: post #13
rottencupcakes wrote: post #5

Probably the single thing that keeps me using Firefox is its address bar. It's a much nicer experience than Chrome's, with its user-friendly auto complete mechanisms. The speed of the browsers is rarely the bottleneck for me anymore. I'll switch to Chrome for intense javascript experiences, but that's about it. I feel like chrome needs to start focusing more time on the experience - these speed improvements aren't pa…

That's an interesting opposing view; because the thing that hooked me on Chrome was the address bar. I can no longer function efficiently in other browsers because, for me anyway, it is so streamlined.

Same thing for me. The possibility to integrate search engines (or other forms) with a keyword is what keeps me in Chrome.

I have to agree though that FFs autocomplete feature is better. Chrome only seems to match addresses if you type their beginning.

Re: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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Post by tvon »

ube wrote: post #44
tvon wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Client-side HTML5 databases have supplanted gears.

Fair enough - so how do I use google docs when I'm offline? Alternatively, would you have suggestions on some other service that provides similar doc capability with html5 database?

Good question(s), I was just relaying the decision Google made:

http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html

Re: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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Post by coyul »

xiaoma wrote: post #45
rottencupcakes wrote: post #5

Probably the single thing that keeps me using Firefox is its address bar. It's a much nicer experience than Chrome's, with its user-friendly auto complete mechanisms. The speed of the browsers is rarely the bottleneck for me anymore. I'll switch to Chrome for intense javascript experiences, but that's about it. I feel like chrome needs to start focusing more time on the experience - these speed improvements aren't pa…

I agree with you and I rate Firefox search bookmarks as an even bigger plus. Life is short and I don't want to waste it by having to go to a site such as wikipedia or a multi-lingual dictionary first and then search and wait for a second page to load.

I'm not sure how Chrome's treatment of custom search engines differs from Firefox's. In Chrome, you can associate a URL with a keyword so that when you type "keyword query" into the address bar, the %s parameter in the associated URL is replaced with your query. In what way is Firefox's better?

Re: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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Post by coyul »

nanijoe wrote: post #34

I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but lately Google Chrome just freezes up most times I open a page that has flash. I'm using it on a Mac

If you haven't quit the browser in awhile, this can happen. The good news is that in Chrome you can kill just the flash plugin without losing the rest of your browsing session (I usually do this by opening the Activity monitor and killing it from there; usually at that point you can see that the Flash plugin has gone completely nuts eating memory...)

Once the Flash plugin is dead, you can reload any open tab that needs Flash and it will come back better behaved. Until the next time it gets into whatever state causes that complete non-responsiveness.

Note that the alternative to this -- at least in Safari -- is just to have the browser crash completely occasionally. If you look at the crash dump, it's still the Flash plugin doing it, though.

Re: Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

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Post by Maro »

Chrome is still missing features that are must have for me from a usability perspective. The number one is "full page default zoom" (eg. not just text zoom). For some reason this request is being ignored since 2008:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=32a8...

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