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Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by RobAtticus » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:49 PM UTC

nhebb wrote: post #3

For me it's the password manager. I still have Firefox installed to navigate to certain secure sites because Chrome just doesn't seem to remember the passwords. Oh, and Chrome needs a search field on their password form (I've heard they're good at that sort of thing). The font rendering in Chrome must be a Mac compatibility issue because side by side, Chrome renders text much cleaner than FF or IE on Windows. HN on F…

You mean the Saved Passwords page? Ctrl+F for the domain/site works pretty well for me.

Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by atacrawl » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:49 PM UTC

The one feature that Chrome doesn't have that Safari does (which therefore keeps me a satisfied Safari user) is one big difference he doesn't mention -- the Cmd-1 through Cmd-9 automatic key commands for one-off bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar. If I want to resize my browser window to the size and location I like, I hit Cmd-1. For my local traffic map, I hit Cmd-9. (And so on.) This is so convenient for me, and I've devoted so much muscle memory to these commands, that switching to Chrome is a non-starter.

Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by potatolicious » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:51 PM UTC

My biggest complaint about Chrome: it's the year 2011 and it still doesn't support color profiles.

I mean, shit, Safari does, Firefox does, even IE does. As someone who loves photography and graphics, as Chrome usage takes over, the ability for people to view these works drops.

Why this hasn't been implemented (actually it has, it's been there in the dev branch since forever but has never made it into the regular release), is beyond me.

Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by aerique » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:52 PM UTC

I think the title bar issue is actually more of a window manager issue: I always use Alt+mouse movement[1] which has the added benefit that I don't have to move the pointer over to a special dragging area. I realize this is more of a Unix thing and not necessarily available on OSX.

Same goes for resizing in Awesome WM, which is well... awesome: WM key[2] + right mouse button + mouse move to resize. Written down it looks cumbersome, but it actually works really well.

[1] I think I use the WM key nowadays, it's muscle memory I can't actually remember! :-)

[2] One of the 'Windows' keys.

Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by papa_bear » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:53 PM UTC

code_duck wrote: post #20

These are odd and rather subjective complaints. I see the author acknowledges that in the conclusion. I agree with the good part points, following are my opinions on the 'bad'. I rather like the downloads UI - I was just wondering why Safari doesn't have a downloads tab like Chrome does. The separate window is a little clunky for me, esp. since OSX doesn't make it easy to cycle through tabs of a window with a keyboar…

Cmd-` (tilde key) cycles between windows of an application

Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by jtaby » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:54 PM UTC

atacrawl wrote: post #22

The one feature that Chrome doesn't have that Safari does (which therefore keeps me a satisfied Safari user) is one big difference he doesn't mention -- the Cmd-1 through Cmd-9 automatic key commands for one-off bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar. If I want to resize my browser window to the size and location I like, I hit Cmd-1. For my local traffic map, I hit Cmd-9. (And so on.) This is so convenient for me, and I've d…

I thought of writing about that but felt it was all subjective and that I couldn't make a UX argument for why it is objectively better.

Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by pasbesoin » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:54 PM UTC

MRU tab order. (I know, I've read the developer comments and it's not going to happen.)

Pernicious browser caching. (Just when will you update that edited favicon?)

Continuing assault on the address bar. (First they came for "http", then they came for me.)

Crappy session management, restoration. (Is there a clear leader in the extensions that add better support? I find myself much less able to rank Chrome extensions that Firefox extensions, based on community signals.)

EDIT: To be fair, a relative's 10 year old laptop still runs acceptably (sans video), due in good part to Chrome's dramatic performance improvements.

Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by jtaby » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:54 PM UTC

Kwpolska wrote: post #15

In terms of the search field, you're terribly wrong. If there's a match under the search box and you hilight it, the bar moves away.

From my response to callahad above: "I didn't mean the search field covers search results, it covers the website's UI. Here's another example of it blocking the UI, this time in github: http://cl.ly/1t450T1S0s2J2V0I3O1W

Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by zlapper » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:56 PM UTC

nhebb wrote: post #3

For me it's the password manager. I still have Firefox installed to navigate to certain secure sites because Chrome just doesn't seem to remember the passwords. Oh, and Chrome needs a search field on their password form (I've heard they're good at that sort of thing). The font rendering in Chrome must be a Mac compatibility issue because side by side, Chrome renders text much cleaner than FF or IE on Windows. HN on F…

you can always use LastPass, seriously, it would be like their motto says: The Last Password You'll Have to Remember!

Re: Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

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Post by nevinera » Tue, May 31, 2011, 6:57 PM UTC

>Notice that “Other Bookmarks” button? It’s empty. there’s the “»” button next to it, that shows me the “other bookmarks” which I can’t see because they don’t fit, but “Other Bookmarks” appaarently means something else. I assume it means regular bookmarks (not on the bookmarks bar), but I couldn’t figure out how to add a page to that list.

It doesn't appear to be very complicated. Control-D, or click on the star in your url bar (which means 'bookmark this'). Now change the folder dropdown to 'Other Bookmarks'. That's how you put stuff in the 'Other Bookmarks' folder. I can see how you'd have trouble figuring that one out...