Google Chrome

DctrHrrbl OTM

jesus christ, could they have rendered the programmers to look anymore smug?

i already hate them all with a passion, even as i'm sure that they're wonderful people

wtf at that

now I kind of never want to try it

that is some jack chick type shit

! It says "OMFG" in the chat window on the second panel. Wonder if that will stay that way.

illustrations by this guy

http://www.piedepagina.com/comics/images/Understanding-Comics_500.jpg

so where's the download link, it's tuesday

Google removes cached page of Chrome download

California hipster programmers get up late.

xpost

27 minutes! CAN'T WAIT!

I'm not going to bother. All these browsers seem the same. You can't pull the wool over my eyes.

Dell otm; this comic was so fucking smug. The security "features" in this browser (black lists!!?!) are fucking dated. No heuristic security features, no new CSRF or XSS protection, no cred.

that comic loads funny. also how long is it? give me an xx / xx at the bottom please.

I'd like to see a Penny Arcade version of this comic...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sF9F5_nDfgc/SL1yxvdb0lI/AAAAAAAABN8/zvFgf9o2vsE/s200/google-chrome.jpg http://mygamesonline.net/images/simon.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Elo_logo.png/155px-Elo_logo.png

u guys sure are mad at a comic on the internet about a new piece of software

ITS OUTRAGEOUS.

I'm mad that I clicked through 14 pages of nonsense with no end in sight, yes.

Yeah, I got to page 22 or so before giving up.

It's such shit.

maybe they deliberately didnt tell us how long it was.

max, at least we're talking about a comic that we are actually reading.
Here's a bunch of blowhards talking about Chrome itself, when they haven't even used it yet...

The commenter talking about the browser inside of a browser is mildly funny.

http://www.aramchang.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/fivefinger_usersenario.gif

Whoa, yeah, I was gunna say. Full-on Scott McCloud going on on that site.

The press conference is on now, so you can live stream the video and see how much the developers look like their comic book representations.

Yeah, I got to page 22 or so before giving up.

Whaaa... ? Jesus, I'm only on page 5. Sod this.

this must be a 'software engineer' thing like when i get mad at jim derogatis

It'll be ironic if nu-nu-nu-ILX doesn't work with Chrome (yeah I know it will 'cause of WebKit etc.)

like rain on your wedding day

http://www.google.com/chrome
Windoze (Beta)

Needs Vista or XP SP 2

wau this is hideous

somehow uglier than ie

I feel like it was designed by me. This is not a good thing.

> Yeah, I got to page 22 or so before giving up

38 pages in total. and that thing that only let you click 'next' and then appeared to reshow the current page whilst downloading the next page really slowly in the background was really annoying.

images available directly:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/images/1.jpg

interesting that they chose webkit over gecko. mildly. will be interesting to see whether Adblock gets ported to it...

and that thing that only let you click 'next' and then appeared to reshow the current page whilst downloading the next page really slowly in the background was really annoying.

that's what im talking about. such a basic functionality failure and these guys are making a browser?

Reminds me of that crap AOL browser from about 1996.

I dunno, I kinda like it. The comic is random and endless however.

pretty awful

what does it bring that firefox doesn't already have sewn up?

lower memory footprint?

Supposedly if a website causes a tab to crash, then that tab can be closed without affecting any other tabs that are open.

But Firefox will reopen your session back at the same state it had when it crashed.

Yep...

Although to be fair, it's usually necessary to force Firefox to close by using the Task Mananger.

I quit after that first page. I don't care if it has a small memory footprint than Firefox (probably not), I'm not going through THAT.

firefox is fine these days, memory-wise; those days are past us, we live in the promised age

safari is amazing too; what are google thinking

total palin play

I just can't believe how fast and light it is. I've just uninstalled firefox, and I don't think I'll regret it. Big surprise.

Don't you guys find it a LOT faster ?

I thought it was very, very, very slow compared to Firefox. Big ILX threads took at least 50% longer to load.

firefox is supersonic these days, even on os x

Using the VP thread and links off of it as a benchmark, Chrome is at least half a second slower than Firefox.

Plus it is caught by the Barracuda filter at work; Firefox is not.

Strange cause I find it fast in a quasi-shocking way. And I'm not a Google fanboy at all !

HOW MUCH A GOOGLE STREET TEAM PAY SNOBAL?

Sold out to the man. Sad, really.

still early, but so far i like this a lot. i'm finding it clean n smooth n quick. is there a possible mac/windows divide here?

yes. it's not out for mac yet. so, huge divide!

i already have a browser on my computer

Seems a little faster than Firefox or IE on my antique notebook

Based on WebKit, but not out for Mac... ridiculous!

I really dug the comic.

it's fast for ilxor.com

don't know about other sites yet.

i kind of wish there's more "chrome" on the window edges so i can drag the window around easier..

kind of wish it doesn't display thumbnails of all the porno sites i've visited as soon as someone asks for a new tab

font smoothing all fucked up on Ilx sometimes

It displays ilx beautifully whereas Firefox is a bit fucked up and doesn't seem to recognise the stylesheets. Not sure whats happening but I'll be using chrome instead from now on.

some complaints from people that it's not using cleartype. I think it is, but loses it in some circumstances. Weird.

So any word on when this comes out for Mac?

Long time, apparently don't have any UI stuff at all yet, just the basics working.

I have been using it all week on my work PC, it is way faster than Firefox on my decrepit old laptop. Mind you so was firefox until it started filling caches up so we will see. I like how much screen real estate it leaves for the browser window.

It crashes whenever I try to use a flash game or similar. I like the size of the windows. I really don't like the new tab with all the popular pages.

i think i like that whole when you start it up it gives you an instant option from popular pages to choose from, instead of having a default home page. Works okay for me.

What I guess I don't like is the simplistic look about it, it works for Google search engine yes but am a bit pessimistic on this one.

http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chromes-full-list-of-special-about-pages

kind of wish it doesn't display thumbnails of all the porno sites i've visited as soon as someone asks for a new tab

― ken c, Wednesday, 3 September 2008 02:46 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ctrl-Shift-N for a new "incognito window" that doesn't save any history or cookies. (might be difficult to press all those keys with one hand)

Chrome doesn't allow me to click the middle mouse button and drag the page up and down :(

this crashed on me last night. back to firefox then lol

firefox never crashes for you?

don't recall so, might have done due to me up to no good but Chrome crashed from simple browsing of ilx.

IE crashes constantly on the other hand

Chrome crashed for me when I loaded the first page of the weather network.. so I went happily back to Opera.

Also, Opera had that preview window but you can choose which 9 webpages you'd like to be clickable links when you load.. does any browser other than Chrome have a similar feature? I rarely use the other two installs on m y computer, Firefox and IE..

Anyone else still using this? I went back to FF today for something else and it seemed to crawl. Loving the home page as well

Flash seems to run really slowly on Chrome but lightning fast with everything else. I switch between it and FF all the time - can't seem to let go of one.

yeah, i have a couple of things i have to flip to another browser for every once in a while. i figure they'll pick those things up with future releases. otherwise i love this. it's like someone fished into my head and pulled out my ideal browser, although given that it's my head, that's not necessarily a recommendation for others.

Yeah, only Chrome on the PC, which is somewhat underused compared to the Mac. It really doesn't seem that much faster than FFX, honestly.

I've pretty much give up oh Chrome, crashed once too often and there were a couple of other aspects which it lacked. Back with FF now.

on

Also, Opera had that preview window but you can choose which 9 webpages you'd like to be clickable links when you load.. does any browser other than Chrome have a similar feature? I rarely use the other two installs on m y computer, Firefox and IE..

I only use FF for work-based stuff, and it drives me mad. It stops working after a couple hours (doesn't display style sheets and links stop working) and I have to force quit. And it's slow. And I don't like it.

I don't know of any other browsers that have a dialpad... and the most recent version of Opera has some kind of smart-search URL bar, so you can search your browsing history by full URL, partial URL (or words that might have been in the URL), keyword (it'll bring up recently visited pages with whatever word it is), or a combination of these. I <3 the new URL search bar thingie.

Is Opera just unknown outside of Canada (even though it's not headquartered there)? Or do people just avoid it because Firefox is and more common and accessible (but not anywhere near as good (or so I think anyway))?

wtf, is the italics tag not working?

eh? i can see italics fine in your post. but then i'm using superior firefox power

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Stainless_Browser%3A_Google_Chrome_For_the_Mac

hmm, not conviced

I do like the tab to search within a site in chrome.

Is there any way to block images in Chrome?

chrome will be great when it's working properly but at this beta moment it's not great. pressing the keyboard while playing fantastic contrapions will freeze it for 10 seconds, and that just won't do.

the youtube freezing after two seconds thing is getting pretty old.
i like it though; i find myself using stuff i usually bypass in other browsers, like everything has a point.

yeah but for a browser that's designed from the ground up to work with modern web2.0 websites it seems to be very good at rendering html and has a neat interface while pretty rubbish with javascript, java, flash??

from that little comic thing - the embedded java etc are supposed to run in its own process so that it won't freeze the rest of the browser when it crashes - i haven't experienced this non-freezing rest of browser phenonmenon.

I've reluctantly switched back to Firefox, following one Shockwave Flash crash too many. The visual feel is great, and the all-in-one predictive search/address box is excellent... but it runs too slowly (on both my machines) and it really can't cope with Flash.

I've dumped flash instead. Fuck that performance hog. Only real loss is YouTube, and I'll live.

Is there any way to block images in Chrome?

The Chromium nightly build-checker thing is kind of nice and the fixes seem to roll out pretty quickly.

ugh what the hell
http://base58.com/ilx/chromecrap.gif

What's so WTF about that?

yeah steve that's the whole point (every chrome tab/window is a seperate process so when one dies the other ones live.. supposedly)

memory usage issue. have to abandon chrome at work anyway for same reasons as mike gave.

all those chromes add up to the mem usage of one instance of firefox

Chrome is great. Only things bad I've got to say about it:

1. Why, when as much as possible has been stripped out of the top part, does it still have a "go" button next to the address bar? The last time I used one of these was about 10 years ago. You type the address and then press enter, don't you? Is there a point to this that I've just never noticed?

2. Flash/funny computer stuff makes some sites work oddly, e.g. back button just messes things up in hotmail and other sites.

3. The nine most visited sites view when you open a new tab is cool, but would be better if you could customise the sites (and titles) it showed.

4. Likewise, I wanna turn off the "recent favourites" thing on the new tab. I hate it. It shows the favourites you add in incognito mode for fuck's sake! I don't want that as the first page that loads up!

all-in-one predictive search/address box is excellent

type "about:config" in the search bar in firefox
yes I will be careful and not void my warranty
find the value for "keyword.URL"
change the string to "http://www.google.com/search?q=";

congratulations on your new all-in-one predictive search/address box

oh and then go get rid of the stupid google search field in the toolbar

Also it's handy that if you're using someone else's computer you can go to options/minor tweaks/show saved passwords and there they all are in plain text.

all those chromes add up to the mem usage of one instance of firefox

FF = 80mb right now

what does that keyword.url thing do tombot?

memory usage issue. have to abandon chrome at work anyway for same reasons as mike gave.

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Tuesday, October 7, 2008 11:58 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

all those chromes add up to the mem usage of one instance of firefox

― ILX Systern (ken c), Tuesday, October 7, 2008 12:16 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

This includes memory pages shared between processes.

about:memory in chrome has tons of details on what its up to. Also: it frees up memory pretty much instantly when you close a tab, unlike FF.

Other thing I like about the address bar is you don't need to hit down-arrow to autocomplete, it just fills it in.

and startup time is pretty much instant on this PC, compared to weeks for FF.

Also: it frees up memory pretty much instantly when you close a tab, unlike FF.

There's a way to change this.

how do i shot freeing up memory?

how do i shot a fucking obvious google search? http://blog.codefront.net/2008/09/10/optimize-firefoxs-memory-usage-by-tweaking-session-preferences/

all those chromes add up to the mem usage of one instance of firefox

...to more than one instance of Firefox, based on the couple of times I've done the maths.

and startup time is pretty much instant on this PC, compared to weeks for FF.

― stet, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 16:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is what makes it better than Firefox for me.

thanks for searching that fucking obvious page for me jon! i'll give it a try.

and startup time is pretty much instant on this PC, compared to weeks for FF.

there's probably a way to change this.

...to more than one instance of Firefox, based on the couple of times I've done the maths.
Yeh, there's usually a little overhead, but because all the tabs are separate processes, when you close them all it shrinks back down. Firefox can't do this nearly as efficiently because it's sharing from one big pool.

That said, while Chrome is good on my work PC, at home it's a crashy barrel of shite -- text gets overwritten weirdly in text boxes and I get strange pauses. Weird.

hate the strange pauses :(

oh chromepause . . .

I basically like it a lot.

There are still some major bugs that need fixed, but it's got potential.

It certainly loads faster than any other browser and it's got some neat features. I'm gonna give it some time before I diss it.

It took me awhile before I realized that the page title is displayed nowhere on the "chrome". Big lose.

even in the tab?

Yeah, like 10 characters of the title, if that.

23, and the rest on hover. I'd rather the space than the words.

Also on Google: does anyone else's Gmail look all extra-line-spaced today? Ugh.

23 maybe when you only have a few tabs, sure. I don't have more than 8, not counting spaces, on any tab right now.

Instead of mouse-over full titles, the title of the current tab should be there in full, overlaid on the others translucently, and the mouse-over should make it disappear.

You listening, GOOG? That design advice is gratis.

I don't think Chrome is really made for the person who more than a few tabs open (that would someone like be me), as the design is totally stripped down, no extensions, speed and simplicity. I still like it, but for now Firefox 3 with Tree Style Tab (tabs running down the side = great for when you typically have 10-20 open all time, since the browser will always remember your previously opened ones) is the best solution for myself at the moment.

you know the kind of auto-predict of popular sites that comes up?, in chrome? can someone else tell me what comes up when they've got to the halfway stage of checking out forcedexposure.com, and have only typed forcede ?
mmmmm.

^lmao

Ultra-development version for OS X finally released. It's fast but rather uncompelling (especially next to current dev release of Safari 4)

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

i use it on my pc at home. i rrrreally like it.

stevie don't you mean you use the Chrome web browser? This is supposed to be a whole "operating system".

Although looking closer it says that it runs on Linux. So I guess it's a... file manager and browser?

"Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS,"

give it ten years and it'll be just as overblown and intrusive as windows is now.

for something that's supposed to be tailored for web applications etc, it is the most unreliable browser i've experienced so far for facebook. writing a message would crash it 8 times out of 10. that's before you try to watch youtube etc.

in my job i sometimes need to load up STUPIDLY LARGE web pages with like 600 javascript dropdowns on them etc - chrome just quits straight away, IE freezes, firefox freezes.. strangely safari on XP has been the most reliable for me

that sounds more the website's fault tho - 412 javascripts on one page are all a man needs

the only things that bug me about chrome: not easy to use extensions, doesn't run adobe reader in the browser

oh, of course it is the web site's fault blueski - unfortunately i have to deal with a lot of internal pages that are intended for administration, monitoring, etc and they were put together by engineers rather than people who know anything about the web. so i have to use them. and i would have thought that an application running on a modern computer with its relatively massive amounts of memory and fast processor could handle rendering 600 form controls on one page but google chrome is just not up to it.

To be honest, I much prefer reader not taking over my browser, I hate that being the default behaviour on other browsers. The PDF plug-in for Firefox on the mac works pretty well though - so maybe if they just improved the integration on a PC I wouldn't mind.

Chrome keeps my work computer usable. wish they'd hurry up and release it for OSX

i use it at home on my dell pc. pretty good.

I don't care for that shady trench-coated character eyeballin me while I'm surfin for porn.

Not even when he flashed you?

"the only things that bug me about chrome: not easy to use extensions, doesn't run adobe reader in the browser"

Some dude figured out neat trick to use google's pdf viewer on anything:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/embeddable-google-document-viewer.html

no need for reader anymore!

for mac http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac

Very tempted. Heck I'll dl and install.

Been using the Mac version for a few weeks. It's fantastic. Firefox just seems to have got all gummed up for me these days. Safari's OK but Chrome is even faster and I love the power of the URL/search bar suggestions. Seems very stable too, for such an early-cycle release.

does anyone know the keyboard shortcut to move between tabs?

cmd-q

cmd-QQ

google chrome is great, its a lot faster than internet explorer

I'm still running Tiger, need Leopard for this. But don't want to buy the entire Mac Box or whatever it's called.

Technically the $30 SL disc will do you want you need it to do, it won't check your OS or license on a fresh install. OTOH, it will remove whatever version of iLife you have (and replace it with nothing), so watch out for that or back it up.

in my experience of a few days of using chrome, i'm pretty sure safari is fasteroiiytttt

faster (kitty walking on keyboard)

but just by a tiny little bit

ah, maybe i'm imaging things

imagining

very sleek, but not noticeably faster than safari. still, if it get mouse gestures, custom search boxes and right click to those context searches -- my three essential firefox add-ons -- i'd switch over

Thanks Nhex. Of the iLife suite I only use iPhoto. Can I back up the pictures andiphoto iteself and just reinstall them after SL is on there, or will SL not like Tiger's version of iPhoto?

xpost

Still can't change the default fonts on this, wtf is taking so long? Times 16 blows.

Also is intel-only, which might rule you out ljubljana

I've got an Intel processor.

I would make sure to backup both the iPhoto app and the photos -- a quick googling reveals some messy importing problems, you might need to rebuild the library file or some such. Some versions have it stored inside the app package, or something. Don't use iPhoto so I don't really know what I'm talking about here.

I found my keyboard shortcut btw fk u v.much

Hmmm, maybe I'll shell out for the box set - I can't see myself not messing up iPhoto... hmmmm

I can't post to ILX from Google Chrome (Vista is the OS); any ideas why? I could last Thursday, when I last used this PC.

You do realize that your answers must be HIP and RELEVANT huh?

Srsly, no, sorry. But I thought I'd bump it.

What happens when you try?

im using it for the mac

kind of sick of firefox being all crashy and sludgy

IM EXCITED

yah here u go official beta http://www.google.com/chrome

ya im using it

that was for the other readers of ilxor.com

i think if u dont know how to find google chrome then u arent an advanced enough internet user to use it

ok i guess i couldve just said public beta today and left it at that but jeez

hey do u guyz know where i can download google chrome--for the mac, though? thankx

for mac http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac

― ice cr?m, Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:18 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cool--so that works on the mac

slokface just started using it today

slockface 2.0

beta actually

someone should send this to slocki

it's pointless to use this until ilx has an api

troo :/

I was looking for even more ways to let Google control my life and then I found this

Honestly, do you guys feels there's a massive difference between chrome and current safari? When chrome gets extensions and stuff the game might be different but right now it doesn't feel like a huge change between those two. I too want to see someone knock out Firefox though, or at least push them for a better mac build, since I'm still attached to it.

pc chrome has extensions as of today and heres a work around for macs http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/08/install-chrome-extensions-mac

safari is pretty terrible and crashy lately, but I keep about a million tabs open. firefox and chrome are much more forgiving.

yeah I use FF on Mac but the current build sucks, makes me feel like I'm using a powerpc mac

xps Thanks but apparently u need the developer build for that to even work, and it won't work with all extensions anyway. I'm willing to wait for this stuff to mature. Besides, seeing my 15 or so FF extensions, I'll probably be locked in for quite some time.

how does the current FF build suck? no slower ime.

FF beachballs on me all the time after the latest version; safari is much faster for me

i like this so far, much faster

http://www.theredwoodmotel.com/images/internet.jpg

^^^ OTM

FF is always beachballing and has this weird thing where links and stuff just stop working after a certain amount of time

I don't like that the trackpad three-finger up/down page scroll doesn't work for some reason.

beachball complainers hate fun imo

help me out here do i want the porsche theme or the mariah carey theme

http://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/images/picks/489.jpg

The decv build has just added font prefs; gonna try this all week

ilh still needs a mod btw

lol 'american apparel' theme

LOL THEMES

cant really fuck w/this until it has a bookmark manager wtf

otm

there's an american apparel theme!!!!!??!?!

cant really fuck w/ this until i fuck w/ this

http://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/pt/themes/images/thumb_at_americanapparel.jpg

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=17010c6b66729123

wow, all of these themes make the browser impossible to look at

*google 9/11 theme*

There's one russian one I like; the rest are anus

Okay another complaint, but maybe theres a setting for this. Gchat doesn't blink when a new IM comes in and I'm in abother tab. Kind of annoying.

the bookmarks thing is really stupid

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dgpdioedihjhncjafcpgbbjdpbbkikmi#

I CAN'T MANAGE BOOKMARKS??????

i've really been liking this but holy fucking shit, how the heck do you release a browser that doesn't allow the user to easily edit/rename/delete/organize bookmarks????

but if you right click on the Bookmark Bar there's a Bookmark Manager option?

not on mac

cant really fuck w/this until it has a bookmark manager wtf

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:03 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

Strange they put a bookmark manager in the linux release and not the mac one. I just wish it had better cookie management. It is looking pretty nice now with all the extensions.

ive not had any trouble with the bookmarks

extensions with flash-blocker stopped working for me and wouldn't open any pages. so i'm back to chrome with flash issues. it's still o k though. bookmarks are more things i half-heartedly intend to check out in the future but never come back to, so it would be fine without.

this is way way way faster on my piece of shit computer than firefox, but no good for watching video - i watch hulu a lot and its really jumpy with that.

plus i hate not being able to scroll using my mouse pad.

so this has a bookmark manager now

i've been using it for at least 6 months and it has always had a bookmark manager while i've used it

On the Mac.

Loving this on PC, but it really is woeful at Flash video.

yup
would be nice if there was a button to just crash the flash aspect of a tab, rather than going through task manager and picking the version that's taking the most memory up.

I love this thing more than FF in every way except I really really miss DownThemAll. Does Chrome have a decent counterpart?

does this fucker do 'find as you type', if not it can fuck off.

it doesn't crash 30 times a day like firefox, i love it

Ctrl-F finds as you type rather than waiting for you to hit enter, but the / key does nothing, which annoys me since it works in Firefox/Opera/lynx/elinks.

Is there a way to find the properties of an image? "Inspect element" takes about 5 minutes to load and then shows me the entire source of the page, which is annoying when I just want to see the URL and/or dimensions of a picture.

I've been using it for a month because Firefox just seems a bit heavy and bloated lately (plus there is a new urgent update nearly every week) and recent versions of Opera have been terrible for me. I don't really feel at home with it, but it works.

Is there a way to find the properties of an image? "Inspect element" takes about 5 minutes to load and then shows me the entire source of the page, which is annoying when I just want to see the URL and/or dimensions of a picture.

yeah thats the only annoyance ive ever had with it

shit auto-fill address bar is my main complaint

or rather, it uses autocomplete not autofill afaik

autofill > autocomplete

seems to run facebook and youtube v poorly for me?

like sometimes vids just won't load up. and i couldn't access the 'messages' part of facebook - maybe i'm doing something rong.

Otherwise I like tho

yeah flash doesn't work too well even though they build it in. 10.1 update works for firefox and safari but not chrome, so no hardware acceleration yet.

So my Chrome "skin" or whole UI changed. Not sure if I'm using some special version. Was there an update I missed? The only button to the right of the url/search now is the wrench.

This is my work Windows machine, btw.

Yeh, it's version 6. Now with autofill form functionality!

gmail suddenly not working in chrome? like, the page loads and then nothing works. can't scroll up or down the page, can't click on anything. UGHHHH

works ok for me

nope, definitely not working.

why did i ever switch to google chrome? it seemed so much faster than firefox but it freezes so much more (and so much more randomly). and it's TERRIBLE with loading gifs. what a piece of shit.

oh, it works now, had to shut chrome down and restart it. stupid fucking programme. any computer people who cross my path today liable to get a punch in the face for the sins of their profession

you using windows?

mac

why did i ever switch to google chrome? it seemed so much faster than firefox but it freezes so much more (and so much more randomly). and it's TERRIBLE with loading gifs. what a piece of shit.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Yeah I'm back to Firefox now. It's a solid journeyman, Chrome is a highly-strung primadonna.

Chrome on windows is awesome, no problems at all. Odd that the builds act so differently.

yeah lex im on a mac + have had the same thing happen

I had that happen once, cleared my cookies and everything was fine

On windows Chrome works really well (for me anyway) - firefox was getting ridiculous for some reason - but I swapped mostly for speed. Chrome seemed about twice as fast and has remained so ever since (except for a brief interlude when I used some crappy free anti-virus software that seemed to drag the whole PC into slow motion)

yeah, on windows chrome seems to be by far the best browser these days

^^ the built-in developers tools are awes too.

Never had any problems with Chrome on either PC or Mac -- pretty stable all around!

Chrome on PC working very well for me too, I'm a total stan

ditto

yeah chrome used to be quite finicky but has settled down nicely for me lately - still miss certain firefoxy things (skipscreeeeeeen) but it's slowly taking over

tried the firefox 4 beta though and that was similarly clean and nippy (albeit with no extensions). could well see myself going back when it's all ready.

is there a bookmark sidebar available for chrome? my laptop is too wide without one.

Every once in a while I'll use Chrome for a day before I get absolutely frustrated at the lack of text-only zoom. I was just looking at some of the Chrome developer forums and Google designers are actually at the point of being assholes about it, despite people begging for the feature.

Apparently it existed in 1.0, but was removed in all versions since.

Fuck 'em until they bring it back, imo.

not feeling the chrome h8, great browser

yeah it is my default browser

doesn't crash all of the time like firefox

Don't bother with Rockmelt, it stinks,

It doesn't import bookmarks or anything else from Chrome, but it does import bookmarks from IE.

http://kathack.com/

Why is Chrome not letting me do the thing where you click the middle mouse wheel & then it scrolls up and down all zippy? You guys know what I mean.

I d/led Chrome because Firefox wasn't letting me close tabs. All around it is a fucked up web browser Friday.

works for me Abbbottt

keen to switch to Chrome but that will not happen until the they introduce three-finger up/down page scroll. Can't believe that is still missing

three-finger gives you a nifty tab overview now. two fingers does up/down scroll here.

CHROMEBOOKS

I am insanely excited by this btw.

y? web apps mostly suck; yet to find a word processor even up to Word 5 standard, let alone anything modern.

i watched a video and i don't get it. does this exist?

oh well here's one. made by samsung.

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/chromebook

i don't write anything up to Word 5 standard, so i'll be ok.

what i don't get, with google music as well as this, is how people think that decent, always-on web connection is cheaper and more available than inbuilt storage.

y? web apps mostly suck; yet to find a word processor even up to Word 5 standard, let alone anything modern.

― stet, Thursday, 12 May 2011 19:25 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's early days obv but in 2-3 years it could well be a brilliant tool for schools, grandparents &c. That and the auto-updating thing. Really intrigued to see where this will go.

what an odd thing to be excited about

yeah well it's new so

probably not a must-have for power users, but if this sort of locked-down, centrally-administrated thing can keep normals from wrecking their computers and making the rest of us waste time figuring out what in god's name they've been clicking OK to.. i'm all for it.

yeah, i mean it's not a bad thing, but it's not a new thing either. it's a portable dumb terminal with internet access. it's a big smartphone with a keyboard and without an app store. there's a market for that, no doubt, but it's not exactly a paradigm shift.

it's a great boon to eductators and the public sector, which i think is a big part of its appeal (& potential clientele)

it would be a real godsend in my classroom, tbh

i guess it's doing something pretty similar to what the iPad does?

Except the iPad can have native apps, while this is *all* web.

anyone got any good browser extension hoonja-doonjas they'd like to rep for

but isn't what's significant - & what makes it similar to the ipad - that it's stratifying computer users, so that they're using an appropriate device? so people who would just be browsing aren't dealing with technical or storage related stuff, and people who have more diverse needs have access to a broader set of options and functions, etc.

it sounds ideal for ppl who want to get online but who can't be trusted with an actual computer, e.g. children, my parents

I know they say "all web" but i find it hard to believe that without a net connection this thing won't do diddly. That dumb of a terminal would be pretty disappointing. It has 16Gb storage, and the price is similar to an iPad. I like schlump's point about stratified devices, basically. This sounds great for people with VCRs blinking 12:00.

People who've been using them say they *are* pretty disappointing w/out net connection, but apparently there's new versions of the Google apps that are much better offline coming.

my fully-featured laptop is also pretty disappointing without a web connection.. mahjongg and doodling skulls in gimp, mostly.

What's you highest mahjongg score Kerm?

not very. i've really focused my training on the skull-doodling, that and the not losing web connections.

Ah I see :)

Address bar autocomplete is a piece of shit compared to firefox. And I'm pretty rubbish at keeping bookmarks so it's something I rely on heavily.

i think the thing where you punch in the thing you're looking for, in chrome, and then it picks it up half-way through, is great; & i like the thing where you can press tab to search; but yeah, if you're trying to access something you've already been to the delay is a little frustrating. it's a trade off though.

in ff though it'll suggest addresses for what you're typing based on any part of the url, or even the page title. chrome only goes with the start of the url.

yes, ff is better if you remember some of the address but chrome also searches the page text, which is occasionally even more useful. seems like it should be poss to make a bar that is .... the best of both worlds.

received a chromebook from google today

eff firefox imo, had enough of its troubles.

so i'm giving chrome another go, and so far not hating it. really liking it in fact.although i noticed sometimes scroll bars mess up, just have to refresh, but still..

i like this so far http://thegleebox.com/

now w/ full screen support in lion

it's a bit dicky tho.

so gleebox is pretty neat

what is up with "full screen support"? is that like maximizing the window or what

i have switched to chrome on my mac now. it is way better :(

it always had a full screen mode, but when full screen was made part of the OS in 10.7 they disabled it while they figured how to make it work with OS X. took a couple of months.

lol chrome

yes http://hypertext.net/2012/01/chrome-flash-no-extension

i approve this link

that's a neat tip. thanks for the link.

Now speaking of extensions -- when I was using Firefox at home there was an extension that allowed me to go to a page (say Maura-era Idolator, where I often used it) and would allow me to filter and download all mp3s linked on the page rather than one-at-a-time nonsense. Is there something like that for Chrome?

xp:
TY so much for that caek, chrome is awesome now, & it was bordering on unusable before

hey ppl, I have a (perhaps dumb, but so be it) question about I problem I've been having when using ilx on Chrome (on a macbook fwiw) - sometimes, w/o warning or fanfare, all the fonts on ilx will go micro-tiny - it still looks & functions like it is supposed to, only exponentially smaller. I do not have the same problem w/ other websites. I'm not using one of the alternative ilx templates from the 'preferences' section, nor have I reset any monitor or browser settings. so why is ilx all microscopic for me all of a sudden, and is there something I can do to fix it & get things back to normal?

okay, nevermind.. I done fixed it all by muself!

why do the cookies persist when i have tried to delete them three different ways

right i have a minor chrome question and i don't quite know how to put it

when i download files from the internet, sometimes the download bar appears at the bottom but the size of the browser doesn't change

and sometimes it appears at the bottom and pushes the top of the browser window up, enlarging it

it does this entirely at random afaics, how do i make it so it only does the former?

It pushes up the browser window when there is no room below the window for the download bar. Move your window slightly higher on the screen.

but the browser stays in the same place, i don't move it

it does that to me, and when I close the download bar it doesn't put the window back where it was, and it fucking shits me to tears

Mildly irked w/o quite knowing why that the latest Chrome update has changed its menu icon to a three-lines icon, which gets used these days to mean anything from "heyyy this is draggable" via "turn these into a list" or "line these up nicely" to "do something totally nebulous possibly involving some lines of text, or not, who knows":

http://ada.mbecker.cc/2012/06/14/goddamn-three-bars-icon/

What is either especially funny or rendering my ire especially redundant is that I can't even remember what it was before the change (was it a word, e.g. "Settings"? A cog?), I just know I don't like the change.

(old woman shouting at three horizontal clouds dot jpeg, etc)

it's a little wrench on my version

Yeah, it was an icon of a spanner. Changing it from that sort of makes sense in that the menu controls other stuff apart from just settings, but changing it to three lines is a bit ambiguous.

Ah yeah, a wrench! I'm fairly sure mine was a wrench until this morning so I'm guessing it's a recent update.

Vaguely remember that I didn't like the wrench either at first for the reasons you mention, snoball, so I guess I'm just cranky about changes. It's not like I can think of a more immediately obvious icon for "this is the only menu, it contains some stuff and also some things".

Still don't like the 3-line icon's use for just about anything any designer thinks of except, like, Save which is of course also problematic in a time when users may never have saved to a floppy disk, etc, though.

The basic Kindle uses a four line icon for the menu button.

I agree it's an annoyingly generic icon. Still not on the same level of annoying as say Microsoft replacing all their menus with ribbons in Office 2007.

the commercial about the dad and daughter with a dead wife/mom makes me want to switch to Firefox.

Haven't seen it, but yeah, Google ads are annoying too - not that it would influence my decision of what browser to use.

who the hell would want a chromebox

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE300M22-A01US-Series-3-Chromebox/dp/B007Y8DJEA/ref=br_lf_m_2858603011_1_4_img?ie=UTF8&s=pc&pf_rd_p=1370516602&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=2858603011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0E9KDVQE2NQ5MHGWH1AF

anyone else's tabs keep opening in new windows when you click between different open tabs? this is one of the most annoying aspects of my life atm

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=146925

ugh why is the solution to this prob so elusive

yes, but it starts and stops randomly. usually closing the window helps, restarting whole computer if it doesn't stop after 15mins

yeah that's what i've been having to do. :/ sucks.

does it still happen if you press 'ctrl + (tab #)' instead of clicking?

no it only happens when clicking ime. obv i need to adopt ctrl+tab. hard to get out of the habit

That happens to me sometimes too. Only on my home computer though (which is still running Windows XP). It doesn't happen on Windows 7. You can move the tab back to the original window by dragging it back.

I'm not sure it's an OS issue though. Maybe my mouse button at home is sticky, and the button stays down for a second after I release it.

i cant move it by dragging it back tbh

Try dragging just the tab, not the whole window? It works for me...

Did the new iPad have 4G? This one does, woo

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/and-voila-something-that-will-finally-stop-your-crazy-uncle-from-sending-you-more-cracked-forwards/265207/

for a few months now gogoel chrome has beeen fucking up my gif game, what's up google

Very annoying thing keeps happening - occasionally I go to click on a tab at the top of the page and instead of opening, it closes! This has been happening all the time but only in the last couple of days. I don't think I'm clicking on the X mark - I'm hitting bang in the middle of the tab. What the hell?

Are you middle clicking? that closes a tab

Not on purpose. But it's good to know that that happens. Cheers Stet. Any way to turn it off? Don't see myself using that function.

ARRRGH! Happened again and I def didn't centre-click this time. This si driving me mad

Weird. You using the default theme? Some themes can fuck w/this

I've put it on Classic Google Theme. Doesn't look any different from before though. It's happened yet again. Seems to always happen when I'm in the middle of filling out a form or writing an email, frustratingly.

is it a tab to the same web place?

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/uD6Z4JHWzXQ

closing tabs by accident is a problem for sure, especially if you need about 15 tabs open to do your job. the more tabs the more precise you must be when aiming your cursor. really separates the men from the boys.

I just use keyboard shortcuts tbh

cheers guys

speaking of, i can never see the full title in a tab's title bar. after the first few characters it "fades out". any obv trick i'm missing?

so today i got my own personalised google doodle !

a series of birthday cakes in the shape of 'google' of course, and a link through to my google+ page.

i am of course assuming its personal, and the whole world aint being directed to my dusty corner of the web ...

I just use keyboard shortcuts tbh

I do too but this just means that once a month for some reason I accidentally hit shift-ctrl-w (exit without asking) instead of ctrl-w (close tab) and curse a whole bunch

Chrome seems a bit sluggish and memory-hogging lately, just me? Or, more likely, just Flash? (also seeing "Flash has stopped responding" messages pretty often)

Of course there is a task manager but since I only ever look at it when things are going wrong I don't really know if anything is using unreasonable amounts of RAM or if that's just standard for a webpage

I switched to Chrome because Firefox was becoming unusable slow and using ludicrous amounts of RAM but it does seem to be suffering in the same way, just not to the same extent. Are modern pages just riddled with memory-leaking javascript or something?

Chrome has just synced my favourites from my laptop with my desktop, which is pretty cool but how come its taken this long to do ?!

Did you only just sign in?

nope, have had chrome, signed in for months now on both systems

anyone having probs using facebook with google chrome lately

Nope, working fine over here.

for some reason i cant click notifications, like pages, or post statuses using chrome on my PC. i can do all these things using the facebook app on my phone, or using Silk for Kindle

no problems here, but chrome on iphone is crazy slow lately

this is still happening help

u don't have like 'social fixer' or some other extension right

nope

i sent help requests to facebook and chrome (holdin my breath), im not sure what the prob is

things i cant do:

invite ppl to events
read any messages
click a notification
post a status

i can do all this from my phone and kindle, just not from my PC so lol at how annoying this is to me but it has seriously ruined my life help

i dunno i only have standard unhelpful suggestions like try an update or reinstall or clear yr cache/fb cookies

does it happen in incognito mode? does it happen in a new windows account? (windows? you're on windows, right? can windows even create accounts?)

well my laptop is new

apparently we do not have a thread for chromebook

CHROMEBOOKS portable dumb terminals in a dying form factor for the 21st century and other google chrome OS related nonsense

http://www.apple.com/safari/

anybody gonna buy their new $1300 web browser machine

chromebook is a thing?

has Chrome been crashing frequently for anyone else?

in case this pissed anyone else off: http://www.zdnet.com/how-to-disable-chromes-new-extra-thick-menus-7000013624/

"Oooooohhhhhhhh stupid browser...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Psy_performing_Gangnam_Style_at_the_Future_Music_Festival_2013.jpg/640px-Psy_performing_Gangnam_Style_at_the_Future_Music_Festival_2013.jpg
...oh oh ohoh oh --disable-new-menu-style"

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ltytlwomia7zcv5/facepalm.gif

this used to be the best browser out there, so fast! but then I got paranoid and went back to firefox (not so bad lately but still slow). I was using chrome for gmail / shopping sites exclusively but it started crashing so bad I had to uninstall it, anyone else having similar issues? I downloaded opera a few days ago and it's like a second honeymoon with all the neat extensions.

I used Opera for a few years but there was a while maybe 3 years ago when it kept crashing for me all the time and I gave up and moved to Chrome. Now Chrome is so unbearably sluggish maybe it's time to go back. I guess it is all part of the circle of life that whatever browser seems acceptable at one point will become unusable a couple of years later.

(don't have any crashing issues right now though but I did a couple of months back, mainly Flash's fault I think)

Kind of depressing how a 2-year-old laptop seems incapable of tasks that on the face of it I was doing happily 12 years ago: playing mp3s while having 10-20 webpages open. Of course now I have tens of gigabytes in a keyword-searchable mp3 library instead of just a few tracks in a Winamp playlist and now every webpage loads 5000 DOM-wrangling Twitter-interfacing javascript functions and Flash adverts, so it's not really the same thing at all, but to the end user it more or less is.

chrome has a builtin flash blocker that you might want to turn on. Just stops any flash item from loading until you click it. Might make things a bit more bearable.

everything that blocks flash makes everything more bearable

but yes, being built into chrome is basically a godsend

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en

this is a bit ugly but i've found it to be of help in keeping zillions of tabs open for weeks on end

stuff like antisocial/widgetblock would probably be handy too

chrome behaves itself pretty well imo, i checked something out on firefox the other day and i couldnt believe how shitty it was fresh out the box

fantastic

oh yes that is super useful. i always find myself adding things to bookmarks just so the tab bar is vaguely navigable and as a result forgetting about them for months.

oh i suppose it doesn't do what i thought it did.

Incognito mode gets around the nytimes paywall.

To think it's 18 years ago when I first went online, using Netscape Navigator...

The internet has come a long way since then, but browsers really haven't, have they? Bitterly disappointed in browsers tbh. We need plugins to disable tabs from eating away at memory now. Why aren't browsers a doozy now? Why do they continue to crash, gawking away memory like there's no tomorrow. It's not really in line with the progress made on every other aspect of the internet tbh.

It's like there's 12-lane motorways ready to be cruised but all we can drive are Trabant cars

when viewing successive photos, like on facebook or a google image search, a photo sometimes becomes a distorted version of a previously viewed photo...? does this happen to anyone else out there? not sure if this is a chrome issue or what, and it's certainly very difficult to troubleshoot via google.

yeah i see that on facebook often. haven't looked into it.

after updating Chrome the address bar has gone from prioritising URL history to prioritising being a search bar, I've accidentally searched for 'il' about twenty times tonight :'(.

Oh, that's fucking annoying. That's how I use the address bar much of the time too.

their url autocompleting always sucked compared to firefox though. i've backed up my firefox search history at work since it has dozens of important urls that are stored nowhere else (i agree this is not exactly best practice).

chrome seems to no longer want to open links in new tabs when i hit command-click.

what did i break?

How the hell do i remove this shit alarm bell from my menu bar (osx)

Command click still works for me xp

Not on chrome cos at work but seem to have lost gdrive since weekend

jesus, I can see the location bar from space now

kinda hate having recent tabs tucked away

cool dinosaur when you're offline nowadays

http://i40.tinypic.com/64noqq.png

i havent gotten him yet!

this is so much faster than safari

page loading times should be zero

So many glitches in Chrome lately.

Has anyone experienced strange happenings with their bookmarks? Sometimes mine move themselves to different folders, or just vanish completely!

Are you by any chance using Chrome on your phone as well as your PC? I had the same problem with bookmarks and it was down to some of them being stored under "mobile bookmarks" on my phone.

hmm, no don't use chrome on my phone.

have never experienced this problem.

Okay it's done it twice in the past hour, to bookmarks that I've had for ages. Just decides to remove them. Searched on internet can't find anyone else with similar problem.

i've moved over to firefox as chrome gives me the 'aw snap' message every time i try to load facebook. lots and lots of suggested solutions as this seems quite common, but none of them have worked for me.

I have two profiles set up on Google calendar, one for school (our lab account) and one for my own stuff (my own Google account). Chrome just straight up moved all the lab stuff to my personal profile and won't show me my own calendars. Everything's fine in Safari. WTF.

Tons of sites have suddenly gone permanently "aw snap" on me in the last 24 hours. It's not an extension, not a Flash error, still happens with a new profile, with a fresh Chrome install, incognito, restart, nothing works. All the affected pages open fine in Firefox and Safari. I Time Machined Chrome back a couple of days to before this stuff started happening, but it's still happening. So somethine I did outside my browser is causing browser problems? Could it be a recently-activated font?

that happened to me and i spent hours trying to fix it, trying all kinds of obscure and increasingly complicated solutions i found on various forums, and none of them worked. and then a few days later it was working again. so, ???

cool dinosaur when you're offline nowadays

http://i40.tinypic.com/64noqq.png

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 5:01 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

update: if you click on the dinosaur and press some keys on the keyboard u can play a little game with the dinor

http://i59.tinypic.com/dmxufl.png

xp -- I wondered if it might be some short duration gremlin.

That dinosaur thing reminds me of the alien attack in QuarkXPress - http://www.crestock.com/blog/entertainment/easter-egg-hunt-hidden-treasures-in-your-design-software-52.aspx

Have had some variant of this problem recently.

the new bookmarking mechanism is a woeful mess

how has the bookmarking system changed? i've not noticed anything yet

i have a different problem. few months ago, with a vague idea of getting a new zealand ip address so i could pay the low low fee for a year's subscription to view premier league games, i installed the 'hola better internet' extension. never bothered following up on it but it soon began fucking up my shit. chrome constantly crashing and flagging up a virus of some kind.

tried to remove the extension but it wouldn't budge, always came back. managed to disable it but still said 'chrome has crashed' every time i relaunched the browser. used ccleaner to get rid as much of it as i could, went into the appdata folder to delete anything related but it's still there and the browser still does the same error when i load it up.

it's not the most annoying problem but i have a vague worry it's doing something rum to my computer. anyone had a similar problem with this extension, or have advice on how to sort it out?

why wouldn't you be using firefox idgi

ff has

adblock edge (enough alone, Chrome doesn't block ads)
fire gestures
ghostery
quick context search
roomy bookmarks toolbar (hidden bookmarks toolbar that appears on hover over top)
suspend tab
tree style tabs (vertical tabs on side)
thumbnail zoom

tbf I'm tempted, getting fed up of Chrome lately

Wm, maybe you need to do OS upgrade as well?

you can have Chrome and adblock, y'know xps

I switched to uBlock and it seems to catch some things that Adblock Plus would miss

don't use adblock or adblock plus on either chrome or firefox they are bad and slow

µblock

oh is that why my browser is so shitty

omg ty caek

i use glimmerblocker as a system preference

arctic noon, there are equivalents for all those extensions in chrome

why the hell didn't i know about µblock

ublock on firefox android (ghostery too if u rly gaf) is a huge draw for an otherwise cluelessly butt-ugly and clunky ui

ff on desktop is plain unnecessary

Wm, maybe you need to do OS upgrade as well?

Could be -- OS bumps have fixed the unexplained before.

god my life is so much better now

Going from Mavericks to Yosemite was no help with Chrome, sadly.

How do I shot missing Search on Page Preview Box?

A couple of system updates later, the problem seems to have disappeared. No idea if Chrome auto-updated it away or it was in issue in the OS. Kind of creepy actually.

Out of the blue Flash stopped working in Chrome for me. I went into chrome:plugins and it was disabled. O.....kay

THIS IS WHEN GOOGLE ATTACKS

So twice this week I've had a Chrome extension be installed without my knowledge, and its some horrible malware shit. Coupons or something, and just decides to put ads all over my web pages.

MS Security Essentials is utter shit and wouldn't recognise spyware or malware if it knocked at its front door.

Is Malware Bytes the only software worth getting for these types of things?

And where do these extensions come from? I haven't downloaded anything to my knowledge

fuck that latest bookmark btw . i have been cursing since it came out.
Getting the old interface back is easy:

Head to chrome://flags/#enhanced-bookmarks-experiment
Change the setting to “Disabled” and click “Relaunch Now” fyi

Yeah the new bookmark tile shit is the worst. It turned my lovingly curated and carefully renamed porn folder into an absolute horror show.

So glad I moved to Firefox

does chrome 55 look stupid for everyone now or just me on desktop windows? it's enforcing "material design" ui (i know nothing about this stuff but this is surely the most arbitrary design language ever) which seems to mean big fat tall tabs with tiny little text and no option to disable in :flags

gave up with chrome ages ago as i was finding it very resource demanding.

Edge on W10 + adblock extension is very nice.

i have to refresh the page several times to get beyond either a blank screen or a dumb "aw snap" error message. internet connection is totally fine, so are other browers

this happens almost every time i open a link in a new tab

Are you updated? That was happening a lot for me until I did

i am! still happens w/ basically every new tab. very bad

yeah im getting blank. tabs a lot

mobile friendly offer at bottom of screen = i feel about the person responsible for this like everyone else feels about thatcher

^ that was driving me insane, u can turn it off

https://s28.postimg.org/f3sqgamyl/IMG_20170104_165839.jpg

bless u a million times

I'm back on Firefox

reader mode is actually p good just useless on ilx. i don't suppose we can do a robots.txt or something to prevent it

does chrome 55 look stupid for everyone now or

― r|t|c, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:08 Bookmark

got used to this within 3 hours and forgot i was ever radge lol

I have this bizzare thing going on with chrome were the url bar text is microscopic - it seems to be shrinking by the second

why is chrome making me -hold down- command Q to quit now? Yeah go ahead subvert the OS, dingbats

there's an option to turn it off under "chrome" in the menu bar (bc why would they just put this in options?)

awesome, thanks brah

i am having the weirdest chrome issue, since updating to whatever the latest version is a few weeks ago. and worse, i can't find anyone else having the same problem, and worserer, i am having trouble consistently replicating the issue.

it looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/Pzo7jCv.png

pop-up URL boxes now occasionally appear, on some webpages. sometimes it's when my mouse passes over an image, sometimes when it's over a URL, sometimes when it's just text, and sometimes when it's just on the side of text. sometimes the pop-up box disappears relatively quickly. sometimes they persist until I move my mouse over the pop-up box. sometimes, even after I do that, they don't go away. it's insane. some websites have more of a problem with it than others - Pitchfork immediately became a nightmare to browse. sometimes i have to "clear" about a dozen pop-up URL boxes when i read a single review. then on the next review, maybe i don't get any at all. it is fucking weird.

twitter also occasionally completely flips out on me, especially when i'm trying to "compose" a new tweet

https://i.imgur.com/XMVqlVP.png

the problem is especially notable when I have a link in the tweet - the pop-ups stack on top of each other, and sometimes I've seen like 20 or 30 stacked - IT'S MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TWEET, OH HEAVENS

anyway, i have had zero luck troubleshooting this or finding anyone with a similar issue.

do you think their being drawn is connected w/ tooltip-style hovers or with the status bar traditionally at window bottom?

use firefox

xp

more like tooltip-style hovers. although again, sometimes the pop-up occurs right where the cursor is, and sometimes they show up several hundred pixels away. it's fucking weird (and incredibly annoying).

use firefox

yeah, this is probably the answer

Is Firefox good now?
Haven't used it for awhile
Chrome is a real hog

Firefox is good now

cosign

Still a memory hog more than other browsers on a mac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMbcOC5dS5k

dropping this here in case anyone finds it useful--i noticed after the last chrome update that the prioritization of suggestions in the address bar had changed. i always use the first letter or two to get to the sites i check all the time, and after the update it started placing my most recent search starting w/that letter over my most visited url starting with that letter.

so like instead of typing 'i' to autocomplete ilxor.com i would end up repeating a search for "irrigating a garden" or whatever the last random thing i looked up was.

anyway this tells you how to fix it: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/14/fix-chrome-prioritizing-search-words-over-visited-sites-in-address-bar/

Appreciate that.

I thought I had noticed something happening, but it was one of those things where I thought maybe I was the crazy one.

search on my android isn't worth shit the past week

not getting fb or twitter notifications in the same time period

lol xiaomi?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/amp/?fbclid=IwAR3eibAW_8iCiqa8dojijIzvHI8_oNYrlH9KqZ4Bz4MrDe2-bHa6KLzaB2Y

(^^^^ this indicates that chrome will not allow ad blockers soon for anyone but Enterprise users)

i've been using Opera for a couple years now and it's great. i'm almost fully extricated from Big Google.

Where has the fucking flag to disable the incredibly stupid pull-to-refresh gone in Android Chrome?

How do I shot printing from Chrome these days?

The selected printer is not available or not installed correctly.
Check your printer or try selecting another printer.

Same even for Save as PDF.

Anyone have suggestions for an add-on or extension that gives Chrome a search bar similar to Firefox's? I basically want my search phrase to persist in case I need to edit it on subsequent searches.

Every time Chrome updates I have to go into flags and disable the side search panel.

Every tech company insists on making their product more annoying with every iteration.

I just updated it and it did not put the side search panel back.

Experiencing a weird bug using Chrome on my Mac, Chrome windows always appear behind / hidden by windows from every other application. No way to bring them to the front (including the "bring all to front" menu item.) Makes my computer a little bit unusable.

Restarting fixed it. Which is weird, because it started happening immediately after a prior restart ...

Oh hi I have another complaint. Cmd-clicking on links on my iPad no longer opens a new tab. Works fine in what I guess is my new favorite web browser, Safari.

Yeah that's the worst. Holding the link does the trick, but no one's got time for that

fuck Chrome and fuck Google

I like it! Microsoft Edge is far worse. It is at least 10 years since I last used Firefox.

chrome sucks, use firefox

I went back to safari after 5ish years of Firefox.

They added a feature equivalent to Firefox containers which was the only thing keeping me on ff, and the Apple Pay integration, iCloud sync of everything to phone, and the greatest feature in the world (https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/20/how-the-security-code-autofill-feature-made-it-to-the-iphone) are huge.

chrome finally blocked ublock origin

apparently pihole won't block youtube ads

what to do?

i feel like you'd already know why duckduckgo wont work for you but maybe youll tell me and then I'll learn something

firefox rules, just import all your shit there

nobody should be using chrome

edge is the same thing fwiw

firefox or safari or opera or gtfo

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

i use Orion and it does a passably good job of blocking YT ads

trying out firefox, so far so good except that ilxor.com won't remember that i've logged in

we use a first-party cookie to do that, so some extension must be preventing that somehow

probably ublock origin!

i figured out a workaround, clicking on SNA returns me to a logged in state

I've never had a problem using ilx with firefox and ublock origin, but what you're describing is something i've noticed a few times lately... i assumed this may be related to the recent ilx fixes?

is it a www / non-www thing? the browser treats them as different sites

I've been using adguard on my phone. works with everything except youtube. the pc version is buggy, avoid it.

i'm m/l fully transitioned to firefox now and it's fine with ubo. i also just installed this extension which tries to sandbox facebook. i like that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

ive been using that fb extension for a few years, it rules

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