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I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by Splines »

simonsarris wrote: post #23
jacquesm wrote: post #8

From the article: > most people I know including myself couldn’t live without Chromium/V8 anymore. Is this a common sentiment ?

I can relate, though maybe he is being a tad sensationalist. I expect (say) my bookmarks to be synced between all my computers. I'm sure plugins do this on other browsers, though. The biggest reason I don't consider Opera or FF for daily use anymore: Non-chrome browsers drive me crazy due to the way they close tabs. It is very stressful compared to mouse-closing tabs in Chrome and its "smart positioning."

Compared to closing several tabs in Chrome, doing a similar thing in the Win7 shell (close several open folders) is infuriatingly difficult. The target size of the close icon is so small, and missing it is doubly bad: it makes you start the task all over again, plus a random window is now positioned to the front destroying your work context.

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by Raphael »

Splines wrote: post #31
simonsarris wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can relate, though maybe he is being a tad sensationalist. I expect (say) my bookmarks to be synced between all my computers. I'm sure plugins do this on other browsers, though. The biggest reason I don't consider Opera or FF for daily use anymore: Non-chrome browsers drive me crazy due to the way they close tabs. It is very stressful compared to mouse-closing tabs in Chrome and its "smart positioning."

Compared to closing several tabs in Chrome, doing a similar thing in the Win7 shell (close several open folders) is infuriatingly difficult. The target size of the close icon is so small , and missing it is doubly bad: it makes you start the task all over again, plus a random window is now positioned to the front destroying your work context.

Eh? Window close buttons are larger than tab close buttons.

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by Jach »

loire280 wrote: post #7
johnrdavisjr wrote: post #6

I can only view the cached version. Looks like he needs a mirror.

Or he needs to implement caching on his Wordpress site. Almost every day there's a popular blog post that misses a large portion of its audience because the author wasn't caching. You'd think that more authors would plan for a traffic spike from aggregators, since that's sort of the holy grail of blogging.

In the same vein as caching (and why caching is good) but the less DB activity each page request can generate, the better. Shared hosts seem to be very conservative with how many concurrent DB connections are allowed to be open at any one time, HostGator's limit is I believe 25. But persistent connections are usually available; PHP has mysql_pconnect and mysqli_connect('p:' . $host).

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by jharrison »

jacquesm wrote: post #8

From the article: > most people I know including myself couldn’t live without Chromium/V8 anymore. Is this a common sentiment ?

Could I live without it? Sure. In that way it's probably a little over the top.

As many replies to your comment suggest, the user experience is pretty great. However, in my opinion, OP was probably referring to the awesome performance of V8 (the Javascript "engine" under the hood). Chrome has become my defacto recommendation to anyone who uses Javascript-heavy web apps. There's also a nice set of developer utilities for Chrome that make it a very useful tool when developing web applications. Perhaps he's suggesting that, as a tool, he finds it indispensable?

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by sylvinus »

hi guys. I'm Sylvain who solved the thing, thanks for relaying the info here! :)

The blog indeed crashed, it's on a very small VM with a remote filesystem and even with a WP cache plugin.. not so much luck, even with apache stopped.

However our company blog has a proper sysadmin ;-) So after I setup a redirect there no more issues... until we get on slashdot maybe ? :)

Cheers!

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by LordLandon »

simonsarris wrote: post #23
jacquesm wrote: post #8

From the article: > most people I know including myself couldn’t live without Chromium/V8 anymore. Is this a common sentiment ?

I can relate, though maybe he is being a tad sensationalist. I expect (say) my bookmarks to be synced between all my computers. I'm sure plugins do this on other browsers, though. The biggest reason I don't consider Opera or FF for daily use anymore: Non-chrome browsers drive me crazy due to the way they close tabs. It is very stressful compared to mouse-closing tabs in Chrome and its "smart positioning."

I've been leaning back towards firefox recently due to how chrome handles large number of tabs: poorly. It'll squeeze them down to the point that they wont even show the favicon, making finding an open page annoying - compared to firefox, which has a minimum tab length, and scrolls the tab bar if it grows too large to fit.

The rest might be a personal prefference, but I rarely use the mouse to close tabs anyway, ctrl+w is faster, and I can hit that as many times as I want without moving the cursor anywhere. I also preffer the / and ' shortcuts firefox has.

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by LordLandon »

listic wrote: post #27
simonsarris wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can relate, though maybe he is being a tad sensationalist. I expect (say) my bookmarks to be synced between all my computers. I'm sure plugins do this on other browsers, though. The biggest reason I don't consider Opera or FF for daily use anymore: Non-chrome browsers drive me crazy due to the way they close tabs. It is very stressful compared to mouse-closing tabs in Chrome and its "smart positioning."

How is mouse-closing tabs in Chrome different and what is "smart positioning"? Didn't notice myself.

When you have many tabs open in Chrome, the length of each tab shrinks so that they all fit in the bar. Smart positioning refers to, when you click a close button on one of the tabs, the rest don't expand to fill the remaining space until you move your mose away, so that the next tab's close button falls under your cursor in case you want to close it as well.

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by swah »

listic wrote: post #27
simonsarris wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can relate, though maybe he is being a tad sensationalist. I expect (say) my bookmarks to be synced between all my computers. I'm sure plugins do this on other browsers, though. The biggest reason I don't consider Opera or FF for daily use anymore: Non-chrome browsers drive me crazy due to the way they close tabs. It is very stressful compared to mouse-closing tabs in Chrome and its "smart positioning."

How is mouse-closing tabs in Chrome different and what is "smart positioning"? Didn't notice myself.

When you close a tab, tabs could become larger because there is now more space for each one.

But in Chrome they aren't resized until your mouse leaves that area. This way you can close multiple tabs with clicking, no movement required.

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