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5 Reasons I'm addicted to Chrome

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Re: 5 Reasons I'm addicted to Chrome

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post #9

1 Reason I Was Forced to Overcome My Chrome Addiction: It keeps freezing, requiring a power-off restart, with more than about twenty-five tabs. Sad to say, both FF and IE8 are much more stable with lots of tabs.

Interface-wise, Firefox also wins in the "huge numbers of tabs" department; Tree-Style Tabs is an absolute must for anyone using 50-100+ tabs regularly.

I would like to pre-emptively add to your comment: If anyone says "you don't need that many tabs" I respond: "You don't need to tell me what I want to do".

Re: 5 Reasons I'm addicted to Chrome

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post #9

1 Reason I Was Forced to Overcome My Chrome Addiction: It keeps freezing, requiring a power-off restart, with more than about twenty-five tabs. Sad to say, both FF and IE8 are much more stable with lots of tabs.

Interface-wise, Firefox also wins in the "huge numbers of tabs" department; Tree-Style Tabs is an absolute must for anyone using 50-100+ tabs regularly.

Can you give me an example of why this is useful? What do you use such a large number of tabs for?

Re: 5 Reasons I'm addicted to Chrome

#23
post #17

For Firefox: 1. Double-click/highlight any word or phrase on a website 2. ^C 3. ^K 4. ^V 5. Alt-Enter (for results in a new tab)

Even faster!

  1. Double-click/highlight any word or phrase on a website
  2. Right-click
  3. Click Google search for [whatever was highlighted] (results in a new tab)

Re: 5 Reasons I'm addicted to Chrome

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I like how Chrome is more stable and uses less resources then Firefox. Does not crash on me like FF does.

Though it is not my default browser - yet. I'd definitely switch when they have same add-ons and it with such added it remains stable/does not crash. One can hope...

Re: 5 Reasons I'm addicted to Chrome

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interface-wise, Firefox also wins in the "huge numbers of tabs" department; Tree-Style Tabs is an absolute must for anyone using 50-100+ tabs regularly.

Can you give me an example of why this is useful? What do you use such a large number of tabs for?

Keeping open things which I have not wrapped up. This may mean patches, forum threads, news articles, whatever--anything which I may use again soon. Bookmarks are not really a good interface for this.

Also, browsing TVTropes.

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