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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
does it have firebug yet? That's all I care about. And no, the development toolbar is not good enough
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...
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/search?itemlang=&q=...
EDIT: and they suck.
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…
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…
The new test system looks amazing! I love when companies do that kind of stuff, it must keep their employees happy!
It's heartening to see modern computing power like this :)
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RSS reader: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/search?itemlang=&q=... (yes, not built in, but quite easy to install ;) )
You meant http://www.google.com/reader , right? (or one of several online alternatives). Why would anyone want to read their RSS feeds in a single browser on a single machine in 2010? Do people these days really spend all their online time at a single machine?
Chrome displays it in plaintext. Now you've gotta import it into your reader before you decide if you really even want to subscribe.
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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RSS reader: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/search?itemlang=&q=... (yes, not built in, but quite easy to install ;) )
You meant http://www.google.com/reader , right? (or one of several online alternatives). Why would anyone want to read their RSS feeds in a single browser on a single machine in 2010? Do people these days really spend all their online time at a single machine?
Things keeping me from using Chrome: * Lack of built-in RSS support. This one kind of blows my mind. * Worst progress indicator I've ever seen. * Can't open external links in new windows, have to open in "tab of whatever my last used browser window was". * Flash crashes more than it does in Safari/Firefox, but I don't blame Chrome for that. Not exactly constructive to the conversation I guess, but at least the first…
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.
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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?
"d victual" -> looks up "victual"
"j joust" -> gets "joust" in a Japanese dictionary
"wp Boron" -> displays the wikipedia page "Boron"
"hn patio11" -> displays HN comments of "patio11"