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Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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Re: Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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Did exactly this, a few weeks ago. Was heavy Chrome user, now fully on Firefox (and Safari on mobile). I am so satisfied with this decision, and the transition was much easier than expected.

I would do it instantly if the devtools were half as convenient as Chrome. Unfortunately they are super clunky

What are you missing? I was feared of this too, but they seem to be just fine.

Re: Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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Yes. After SPDY had already been implemented and shipped in Chrome.

It's not like interoperability suffered because of that. HTTP fallback was always there.

Nevertheless it's some kind of fait accompli, especially in a market with only three main actors.

Where one actor can also start using the new "standard" overnight and break lots of services for people which are not using their browsers... You know what I mean. It's some kind of enforcing to have a monopoly.

Re: Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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If building from scratch maybe, but when was the last time a browser was built from scratch? Even Chromium was forked from WebKit.

That's my point. The web is so complex that browser engines are becoming a monoculture. Even if you forked Chromium now, you'd need hundreds of engineers just to keep up with all the new things that are constantly added.

And yet the fact that the major engine implementation is opensource still allows each vendor to innovate by adding new useful features to the users.

We're really far from IE6 era of complete stagnation.

Re: Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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Everyone in this thread needs to put their money where their mouth is and go back to Firefox if they're currently using Chrome.

No hardware video decoding on Linux ...

Indeed - but it's hardly an issue in practice.

Re: Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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It seems like more and more, Google is leveraging their near-monopoly on web browsing to just skip the proposal process and do whatever they want without discussion.

in this case it looked OK > Though existing HTML support for id and name attributes specifies the target element directly in the fragment, most other mime types make use of this x=y pattern in the fragment, such as Media Fragments (e.g. #track=audio&t=10,20), PDF (e.g. #page=12) or CSV (e.g. #row=4). fragments is already there but most pages do not have a clickable ID attribute. If Chrome could automatically provide…

Although there already was a proposed standard by a W3C group for doing this, although it is a lot more complicated (with a bunch of variations, but even implementing one of those would be nice): https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-states/#json-examples-conver...

Re: Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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I would do it instantly if the devtools were half as convenient as Chrome. Unfortunately they are super clunky

What are you missing? I was feared of this too, but they seem to be just fine.

Can't inspect websocket frames. It's ridiculous.

Re: Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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Everyone in this thread needs to put their money where their mouth is and go back to Firefox if they're currently using Chrome.

Did it on Monday evening. Great choice, no problems at all. Could import all data, also switched to Firefox on my Smartphone where I can now run uBlock, too.

It makes such a difference on mobile being able to run a good blocker.

Re: Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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Did it on Monday evening. Great choice, no problems at all. Could import all data, also switched to Firefox on my Smartphone where I can now run uBlock, too.

It makes such a difference on mobile being able to run a good blocker.

Totally. I am also running my own Ad blocking VPN with Pihole/PiVPN and routing all my mobile traffic through that. It's just great and probably the best $4/month (for the Vultr instance) I have ever spent.

Re: Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

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What are you missing? I was feared of this too, but they seem to be just fine.

Can't inspect websocket frames. It's ridiculous.

I'm out of that, but maybe somebody else in here got an idea how to fix your problem with that.
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