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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 carussell »

wccrawford wrote: post #2

1) Downloads - I love the download bar. And the downloads tab lets you view the progress there, too. 2) Title Bar - You can actually drag using any empty space up there, including all that space to the right of the new tab button and around the close/maximize/etc buttons. 3) Massive Preferences List - Sorry, that's a feature. As for being hard to find what you want, without those options, you couldn't find it anyhow.…

> Search Field - The complaint is that it covers some of the UI and you have to close it to use the page? Sooo... How does a massive search dialog work better? I've actually found very few sites that are rendered useless by that search field, but almost all are rendered useless by the giant box that all other browsers use.

I'm having trouble figuring out what you're talking about here. "All other browsers"? Safari and Firefox did away with the old big and centered find-in-page dialog box; they both use a find bar. I just downloaded Opera and checked it, too. It also uses a bar.

Regarding "rendered useless [in]… all other browsers", neither Opera nor Firefox obscure any part of the page with their find bars. Safari temporarily obscures the part of the page that exists in the space where the find bar appears, but still lets you scroll up to reveal that part if you really need to.

I realize people form an emotional attachment to their software of choice and get defensive, but ease up. This is baseless stuff you're speaking here.

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

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Post by potatolicious »

ryandvm wrote: post #39
potatolicious wrote: post #23

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 re…

I'm sure it's a big deal for you, but surely you understand that this is a feature that only 0.5% of the population cares about. Most people are happy to watch 4:3 television stretched to fit their wide screen TVs and you can't believe that Google hasn't implemented color profiles?

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 who are confused why their pictures look fine from Windows Explorer/Preview, but look completely different when uploaded to Facebook.

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

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Post by hollerith »

Something I hate about Chrome not mentioned yet is that when the text is sufficiently large or the window sufficiently narrow, it flows over the right end of the window, with the result that to read it, you have to scroll horizontally back and forth for every line.

Note that this happens for ordinary

elements, not just for 

 elements and other odd things.
That is something that never happened to me in the first 16 years of my use of browsers. It now happens occasionally in Firefox, but it is much worse in Chrome.

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

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Post by carussell »

wccrawford wrote: post #10
callahad wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

6) Lack of Attention-to-Detail throughout - Still trying to find the 'broken gradient'. Everything looks fine to me. It's definitely there. Open the Web Inspector, pop it out into a new window, focus another window or application. Edit: Here's a side-by-side screenshot of the unfocused Web Inspector dialogs in Safari and Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/WftBr.png Also, it turns out that you can make it even worse by focusi…

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.

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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.

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

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Post by ryannielsen »

wccrawford wrote: post #2

1) Downloads - I love the download bar. And the downloads tab lets you view the progress there, too. 2) Title Bar - You can actually drag using any empty space up there, including all that space to the right of the new tab button and around the close/maximize/etc buttons. 3) Massive Preferences List - Sorry, that's a feature. As for being hard to find what you want, without those options, you couldn't find it anyhow.…

The author's coming from Safari, where the search field is integrated into the page yet doesn't obscure content. It's a very well done implementation that doesn't suffer the problems of Chrome's overlay tab or a search dialog.

Also, Safari has resizable text boxes. I agree, they're wonderful.

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

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Post by carussell »

treeface wrote: post #33
jtaby wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot for your comment, callahad. I'll try to respond to your comments. 1. You're right, I hadn't actually noticed that until after I wrote the blog post. I think it's because I hide the Dock by default (still doesn't explain why I didn't notice it in the app switcher) My point was, there are three places to manage downloads. I have to manually close the Downloads bar. Worst of all (and this is something I for…

I see your point about #3, but to be honest, I've been using Chrome since v1 and I have never once had this be an issue. Not a single time. There is simply never a case where what I'm searching for is in the very top right 10 pixels of a page. In your github example, why would you ever be searching for "dashboard", "inbox", "account settings", or "log out"? Also I don't really understand your complaint about the book…

> There is simply never a case where what I'm searching for is in the very top right 10 pixels of a page. In your github example, why would you ever be searching for "dashboard", "inbox", "account settings", or "log out"?

I think jtaby made it very clear that he wasn't referring to cases where it covers search results, but that it covers the website's UI. In fact, those were his exact words.

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

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Post by sigzero »

wccrawford wrote: post #2

1) Downloads - I love the download bar. And the downloads tab lets you view the progress there, too. 2) Title Bar - You can actually drag using any empty space up there, including all that space to the right of the new tab button and around the close/maximize/etc buttons. 3) Massive Preferences List - Sorry, that's a feature. As for being hard to find what you want, without those options, you couldn't find it anyhow.…

Still can't copy and paste images from Chrome to anything else on the Mac.

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

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Post by kapitalx »

Griever wrote: post #11
callahad wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

6) Lack of Attention-to-Detail throughout - Still trying to find the 'broken gradient'. Everything looks fine to me. It's definitely there. Open the Web Inspector, pop it out into a new window, focus another window or application. Edit: Here's a side-by-side screenshot of the unfocused Web Inspector dialogs in Safari and Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/WftBr.png Also, it turns out that you can make it even worse by focusi…

Is this an OSX only issue? Just tried this on my Windows 7 box using version 13.0.772.0 and everything looks good to me.

I'm using chromium 13.0.759.0 on OSX and I don't see this issue either, the gradient looks fine. Not that a gradient in the developer tools could overshadow all the positives of chrome.

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

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Post by d0m »

I really don't agree with the author's complain. Particularly the download window. I HATE when a new window popup when a download start when I use firefox. The chrome's way is so much better; you can easilly see the progress, click on it to open and even drag it. If you don't want to see that, you just close that bottom dialog. In fact, I really rarely use the download tab; only when I'm searching something I've downloaded.

I have to agree about the developer tools though, it's really not as polished as the rest. Probably because only developers use it and they don't mind as much? Or the product manager doesn't use it? I can't say.

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