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

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

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Post by mitchty »

redthrowaway wrote: post #31

Favicons: This is by far my favorite feature of modern browsers, and I in no way apologize for loving them. They make bookmarks actually useful for sites you visit regularly. Take a look at my bookmark bar: [1] The favicons allow me to fit all of the links I visit regularly in one easily accessible, compact place. I don't care if they look "tacky", they're incredibly useful. [1] http://min.us/l5aGM

Damn dude, I do the same thing, just not as.... extreme. Been using FF4 a bit lately, once Firefox gets tab/process separation I think I'm going to be on my way back there. I miss noscript like nothing else.

Here's mine, I've been having a fun time trying to figure out half of your bookmark bar, damn man.

http://i.imgur.com/mLKd5.png

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

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Post by erikig »

georgieporgie wrote: post #69

Ctrl-Tab behavior frustrates me pretty much every day. Add-ons to work around it are really kludgey.

Thanks GP, I think this is my biggest peeve as well.

MRU CTRL-Tab is a well established Windows UI paradigm, don't ask power users to change without offering a way to disable this.

Also, while I really like searching from my location bar, I'm also not a big fan of the way the Google Omnibar Search retrieves history items using parts of the URL you visited. I much prefer the Firefox/Awesomebar method.

That said, I <3 Chrome because Chrome <3's Me

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

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Post by sp332 »

wmf wrote: post #66
potatolicious wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering this has been standard is every single browser, major and minor, and Google is the sole standout... yes. And color profiles aren't some obscure thing that only graphics people care about - there are a lot of photos online right now where people look like zombies (or tomatoes) because the embedded profile isn't being accounted for. If you Google for it, there are plenty of complaints from non-techy people…

To be safe, shouldn't all photos posted on the Web use sRGB? Using any other profile seems like asking for trouble and loss of dynamic range.

That's what they used to say about the "web-safe" color palatte, but I was hoping we'd put that problem behind us (along with avoiding alpha channels in PNGs and fixed background images).

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

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Post by sp332 »

redthrowaway wrote: post #77
starwed wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it weird to even think of a bookmark bar anymore. At least in FF, the URL bar does such a good job searching history/bookmarks that I have no use for it, and I thought chrome was now in a similar position?

I find Chrome's omnibox better than the address bar in FF, as it autocompletes. I suppose I could press cmd-L to jump to the box and type a few letters, but the web is so optimized for the mouse that I usually have my finger on the trackpad anyway.

Firefox has been experimenting with autocompletion, it might make it into a future version. https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2010/10/27/navigate-the-w... You can install the first-party addon without even restarting your browser. There are other experiments in the "Lab Kit" https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2010/11/its-time-to-get-your-la...

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

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Post by nhebb »

RobAtticus wrote: post #21
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.

Ctrl-F

Good point, but the UI's still inconsistent. If you open Options there is a Search options box. The passwords screen is modal, so that search box isn't accessible and you have two methods of search - a search field for Options and Ctrl-F for password. The other issue is that Ctrl-F doesn't consistently scroll to the highlighted item. When doing a Ctrl-F I often have to use the scroll bar to find the highlighted phrase.

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

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Post by personalcompute »

Newky wrote: post #84
starwed wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it weird to even think of a bookmark bar anymore. At least in FF, the URL bar does such a good job searching history/bookmarks that I have no use for it, and I thought chrome was now in a similar position?

My only usage for a bookmark bar is for javascript bookmarks such as readability and HackemUp

These are 'bookmarklets' and can be accessed through the normal bookmarks window (or bookmarks pane) as well.

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

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Post by masklinn »

boucher wrote: post #94
masklinn wrote: post #58

If the only thing you want of Chrome are the improved developer tools, the same tools are in the Webkit nightlies ( http://nightly.webkit.org/ ). The tools UI also does not have issues like broken gradient or draggability

Absolutely not true. The most interesting features in the Web Inspector are Chrome specific, largely because they are V8 specific for the moment.

I am interested in which features whose would be. From my experience with both, I have not used anything in Chrome which was not available in webkit's nightlies.

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

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Post by redthrowaway »

mitchty wrote: post #101
redthrowaway wrote: post #31

Favicons: This is by far my favorite feature of modern browsers, and I in no way apologize for loving them. They make bookmarks actually useful for sites you visit regularly. Take a look at my bookmark bar: [1] The favicons allow me to fit all of the links I visit regularly in one easily accessible, compact place. I don't care if they look "tacky", they're incredibly useful. [1] http://min.us/l5aGM

Damn dude, I do the same thing, just not as.... extreme. Been using FF4 a bit lately, once Firefox gets tab/process separation I think I'm going to be on my way back there. I miss noscript like nothing else. Here's mine, I've been having a fun time trying to figure out half of your bookmark bar, damn man. http://i.imgur.com/mLKd5.png

From the left:

Gmail

Google Torrent search

Google Reader

Hotmail (requires me to log in every 30 days to keep forwarding to gmail)

Facebook

Canucks Forum

UVic website

Popurls

StumbleUpon

Reddit

Hacker News

Slashdot

H-Online/Security

Intern0t

Stack Overflow

programmers.stackexchange

Cracked

College Humor (never visit, since removed)

xkcd

Cyanide & Happiness

Penny Arcade

Dilbert

SMBC

ZDNet

Ars

Wired

Engadget

TechCrunch

Al Jazeera English

The Onion

CBC

/b/

wikipedia watchlist

Wolfram Alpha

Grooveshark

Pitchfork

SurfTheChannel

Sidereel

Youtube

TPB

Torrent Butler

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I have a bunch of individual pages favorited in a number of areas, but those are the ones I visit frequently.

Edit: It's times like these I wish HN used Markdown, so I could compact this into a table. Sorry for taking up so much room.

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

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Post by wccrawford »

carussell wrote: post #44
wccrawford wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean it's missing? Like, flat, instead of gradient? I can see that... Not sure I'd complain much, though.

And you just moved the goal posts. -- So I got downvoted. Where the original goal would be being free of issues (or "Everything looks fine") with respect to the attention to detail regarding the gradient, and the new position is no longer being free of issues, but not enough of a personal nuisance for wccrawford to cause him or her to "complain much". I'm still not sure that it needed to be spelled out like that.

I probably should have refrained from adding my personal opinion. I don't disagree that it should be fixed. I only interjected that I didn't think it was much of a priority.

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

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Post by RobAtticus »

nhebb wrote: post #105
RobAtticus wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ctrl-F Good point, but the UI's still inconsistent. If you open Options there is a Search options box. The passwords screen is modal, so that search box isn't accessible and you have two methods of search - a search field for Options and Ctrl-F for password. The other issue is that Ctrl-F doesn't consistently scroll to the highlighted item. When doing a Ctrl-F I often have to use the scroll bar to find the highlighte…

Yeah, it's definitely imperfect. It's easier than scrolling through everything, even if all Ctrl+F does is highlight on the scrollbar where it is.
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