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- Thread starter ThatObviousUser
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They haven't fixed it for months. It doesn't look to be on their list of priorities. Does every OS have the same problem? I wish they'd just use Sparkle for updating on OS X. It's amazingly awesome.
It's not that hard.
*Pseudo Code
It's not that hard.
Code:
latest_version = ping_server()
if latest_version > your_version {
update_label.text = "New version available!"
update_button.enabled = true
}
function update_button_click() {
download_latest_version()
}Is that really from her? <3Jasoco said:No. Canaries don't work on OS X. I'm on the Dev builds. The highest you can go on OS X. And I haven't had any problems which is nice. Just waiting for it to update again. But the updater STILL sucks. It keeps saying there's an update, but then when I try to check it says "Update Server Unavailable" every time. So I end up going to the official download page and download it myself only to find out there WAS an update, but the fucking program can't update itself.
And now even after updating to the latest highest version I can get on the Dev channel, it STILL says "Update available".
Dearest Google,
HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO MAKE A WORKING APPLICATION UPDATER?
COULD YOU PLEASE FIX THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD?!
Love always,
Summer Glau
Vanillalite
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dudeworld said:
Built in PDF reader... can read pdfs in it's own closed sandbox...
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
dudeworld said:
Chrome Instant.
It's Google Instant for your browser. It works amazingly. It's the most revolutionary update in a browser in a decade, seriously.
ashbash159
Member
Are you sure it is there?Stumpokapow said:
Seems as normal as Chrome 7 to me right now.
Instant is so awesome and such a time saver. Can't believe it took this long.
I also love OS X's Tab Overview. I just wish the screen had some other options like close X's on each thumbnail and some other buttons like maybe a + for creating a new tab and the ability to drag them around and rearrange them. I assigned it to a three-finger trackpad swipe to the left.
I also love OS X's Tab Overview. I just wish the screen had some other options like close X's on each thumbnail and some other buttons like maybe a + for creating a new tab and the ability to drag them around and rearrange them. I assigned it to a three-finger trackpad swipe to the left.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I would just like the Flash implementation to not consume 50% more CPU than the competition. then I'll start caring about Chrome again.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Yeah I migrated back to Firefox as of beta 7....god I love browser wars
It's been a hack for months I believe. On Windows though.Charred Greyface said:
I won't be going back to Firefox. I'm keeping my bookmarks in one browser now and am not exporting them again. Fuck that shit. Firefox can do whatever the fuck the want, Chrome works amazing for me and is super fast with all the newest features.
:lol :lol :lolJasoco said:No. Canaries don't work on OS X. I'm on the Dev builds. The highest you can go on OS X. And I haven't had any problems which is nice. Just waiting for it to update again. But the updater STILL sucks. It keeps saying there's an update, but then when I try to check it says "Update Server Unavailable" every time. So I end up going to the official download page and download it myself only to find out there WAS an update, but the fucking program can't update itself.
And now even after updating to the latest highest version I can get on the Dev channel, it STILL says "Update available".
Dearest Google,
HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO MAKE A WORKING APPLICATION UPDATER?
COULD YOU PLEASE FIX THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD?!
Love always,
Summer Glau
Not sure if you saw this Jasoco....Jasoco said:
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/12/02/google-chrome-canary-coming-to-other-oses/
The thing is, if it's anything like the Chromium builds, I can't just switch between the versions and keep all my settings. Chromium uses its own Profile folder in its own settings folder and Chrome uses its own. I assume the Canaries do too. If they made it so all the apps used the same application support folder and could be launched separately (Firefox and the Beta's use the same exact profiles), but Chrome's different forks don't. Which is understandable for some reasons, but the main reason I don't use Chromium right now.Pctx said:Not sure if you saw this Jasoco....
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/12/02/google-chrome-canary-coming-to-other-oses/
That's the opposite actually. Multiple profiles means more than one in a single browser. What I want is all three Chrome forks to use the same profile.Pctx said:
Do the Canary builds call themselves Chrome in the EXE/APP filename? If so, there will probably be no problem. If they're like Chromium where the app is named Chromium and it has its own folder under Application Support, then it'll have its own profile. Dev and Beta builds are just Chrome.app with different guts. If the Canaries are the same app, I will have no problem trying them out. As long as they don't do anything to fuck up my profile in case I go back to a Dev.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-to-launch-chrome-web-store-and.html
apparently chrome web store is coming tomorrow morning
apparently chrome web store is coming tomorrow morning
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Reposted from another thread as this one is probably more appropriate: I'm constantly annoyed by the scroll bar on this browser, as whenever I scroll up by directly dragging too fast it will snap back to where it was when I actually clicked the bar (seems to be caused by the cursor going just over the "Other bookmarks" button). Is there any way to fix that? Drives me nuts.
Anton Sugar
Member
Wallach said:
Seems to actually be caused by moving your mouse horizontally after you have the scroll bar selected. On mine, I can click the scroll bar and move up and down fine, but if you move the mouse cursor to the left more than 1.5" (approx, of course), it snaps back to the original position.
But...you can just move the cursor back, if you still have your mouse button pressed. Really not that difficult.
Kuran said:
Yeah, I don't get the hubbub about the games. The other dedicated apps are cool, but I just don't know if they're more useful than the actual sites. Not to mention the ones I install are pretty buggy (functions not working, etc.) Still, it's day 1 and I like it so far.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Jzero15 said:
Yeah, it's a little disappointing.
I "installed" Mibbit, which is a web IRC client I've been using for at least a year. All it seems to do is add a shortcut to mibbit, but I've already got one of those in my bookmarks and in my most visited thumbnails on the new tab page.
Installed Amazon.com. That failed to install, just totally bombed out.
New York Times looks great and all... but again, it's just a bookmark to http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/ -- again, great interface, but I could do that in any browser and before the Chrome Web Store launched. In fact, why don't they just redirect http://www.nytimes.com to the Chrome version?
I decided to install "Clock", an application by Google. It gives you a popup box with a little calendar and clock. That seems... well, redundant, actually... but at least this one seems to be locally installed and part of the web browser, as opposed to just a shortcut to a website.
"What Is My Ip Address" looked neat, but I can already go to http://www.whatismyipaddress.com and it gives me the same thing.
... and that's all I found in all of the non-game categories that looked at all interesting. The first game I tried was Canabalt. It triggered FlashBlock, so obviously it's just a link to the Flash Canabalt website.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Yeah this blows. It's a good "hey did you know about this cool website" place, I guess.
Mr. Snrub said:
It happens in both cases for me. The problem is that usually I will do that as a flick motion just to get to the top of a page and apparently a decent percentage of the time when I release the mouse button the cursor is just high enough that it snaps back to where it was.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
I'm not sure it'll even be that. If you don't know shit about the internet, this would be useful, but you also wouldn't be running Chrome, you'd be stuck on IE6 or whatever. If you know shit about the internet, you probably a) know how to use Google, and b) know how to use sites like Digg / Reddit / Delicious / Stumbleupon / etc.
I guess I was kind of thinking these web apps would have some sort of operating system integration or something... :/
The Friendly Monster
Member
The Web is the operating system.
The store is basically about monetization.
The store is basically about monetization.
Vanillalite
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Still needs a kernel.The Friendly Monster said:
PS: Linux nerd post lol
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The Friendly Monster said:
Monetizing what, though? On the launch store, all the best stuff is free and all the for-pay stuff is cash grab stuff. I mean, what web apps would we ever want to be monetized outside of games? Outside of games, I'd figure... Netflix--which wouldn't work because they don't want Google as a middleman and like on iOS they'll give away the client and sell their own subscriptions... ... ... well, that's about all I've got for non-games that it makes sense to monetize.
I could see it being a useful payment processor for games, I guess.
Dead Prince
Banned
It feels like a flash game site and then it's not even that fun to use. I would like something like kongregate.com though but ehhh. still see no reason for the web store
The Friendly Monster
Member
Games, music, films and TV for me. Maaaaybe subscription to newspapers, magazines and ad-free websites.Stumpokapow said:
Dreams-Visions
Member
I wonder if something like this could make OnLive succeed...
The NYTimes app is pretty cool as it's more of a customizable version of the website. I feel like I'm getting more information at once with the website, but the app feels more focused and nicer to read. I guess this is where the web is headed.
Amazon app doesn't let me type in the search box. Works in Sarari though :lol
Amazon app doesn't let me type in the search box. Works in Sarari though :lol
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The Friendly Monster said:
It's not clear to me what you mean by "music", "films", and "TV". If you mean Spotify, Hulu Plus, and Netflix, like I said, they're not ever going to use something like this.
With the Chrome App Store and those services, Google is only handling credit card processing. All the rest would still be handled by those companies. Why wouldn't they just use Paypal, Google Checkout, or their own credit card processing and eat the ~5%?
Stumpokapow said:
Google just released an ebook store. They will probably have a video and music store?
They have the most popular smartphone in the world. Wouldn't they be stupid not to?
and if people don't want to use the Google offerings, they will still make it easy for Netflix, Amazon, whoever, to have their own, nice app version of their site for Chrome/Chrome OS users.
Plus what else he said. News/Magazine subscription.