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Google Chrome |OT|
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Battersea Power Station
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You can have different profiles, each with its own sync, bookmarks, etc.DoctorWho said:
Battersea Power Station
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Sync requires a Google account, yeah. If you just want a local profile, though, you don't need to connect it with anything. It can just sit on 1 computer.DoctorWho said:
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This is getting weirder all the time
Just me that's been having real Flash lag issues on the latest version? I need to know whether it's a Chrome update, a Flash update or my computer, but Youtube videos are occasionally freezing and the sound is cutting out intermittently...
Edit: Apparently Youtube is html5 now? When did that happen?
Yeah, looks like it's gone back to the top... why? Stick to one motif dammit
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Okay, I googled 'Youtube html5' and apparently I was auto opted in to an html5 trial. So I opted out and everything's great now. Now I have to worry about why my html5 isn't working well. Is it possible that we were all opted in by the Chrome update?
Edit: Apparently Youtube is html5 now? When did that happen?
survivor said:
Yeah, looks like it's gone back to the top... why? Stick to one motif dammit
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Okay, I googled 'Youtube html5' and apparently I was auto opted in to an html5 trial. So I opted out and everything's great now. Now I have to worry about why my html5 isn't working well. Is it possible that we were all opted in by the Chrome update?
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Just tried using the new tab page with actual bookmarks, it's garbage (I mean the new-old one not the apparently new-new one that adds the bookmark bar back.) I like it for apps though, but it still has quite a bit to go.
I just wish they'd make it so double-clicking the empty tab bar area opened a new tab like in Firefox... and Safari... and Opera. And remove that ugly "presentation mode" button from the OS X Lion version. It takes up valuable pixels for something that can be replaced with a simple hotkey and menu option. (Which it has. I don't need that useless button!)Sentry said:
It's because there needs to be "overshoot" room to stop your mouse and turn back to avoid activating the menubar. I do wish it could move them up too and just make it so there's a delay before the menubar appears. Or make it so the menubar shows up when you perform the Lion Fullscreen "Show Dock" move where you place the mouse at the edge, then push more to make it slide out. I mean, if they expect people to find the Dock with that undocumented move, I can't see why they can't make the menubar show up the same way. I'd rather have the pixels back than an instantly appearing menubar.Sentry said:
I don't know if apps have that much control over when and how the menubar appears though. But I'm not a Cocoa programmer so I have no idea. Probably not.
I don't know what's up with the new version of Chrome, or whether it's just my install, but just lately it's been taking an absolute age to load pages, crashing frequently and there are some other problems too. I've used Chrome for ages without problems, it just seems to be in the last week or so that this is happening. Tried Firefox, and that loads pages almost instantly and doesn't crash, so I don't understand what the problem is - the only extensions I have are Adblock, the GAF extensions and a couple of others like the +1 button.
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I am interested to see if Chrome becomes as integrated on Windows 8 as IE10 is. The Chrome team makes a big deal about being native on the platforms its on. (If it makes sense, I remember they had Aero previews for each tab but so many people reported they hated it that it was changed back to just one per window.)
CornBurrito
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Why is there still no right clicking images and auto saving thme as your desktop background?
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Sentry said:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/
Obsessed said:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ddkmiidlgnkhnfhigdpadkaamogngkin
thecheese said:
Is it all pages or just GAF? If just GAF, it might be my +1 extension.
Hopefully there's a fix soon, at least this narrows it down to being either a Chrome or extension problem as opposed to something PC related.thecheese said:
For me, it's all sites. It doesn't happen all the time, seems random when it does. Sometimes when I choose a previously loaded background tab, the background will be a blank white page, and moving the mouse will cause certain elements to load individually, as if I'm "drawing" them on the screen with the mouse or something. I have to close and re-open Chrome to fix that, if it hasn't crashed by that point, that is.Andrex said:
Andrex said:
Well, IE10 is a foundational component of Windows 8. Metro apps are built to run on the platform. Also considering Metro is a completely different paradigm than a classic Windows Chrome would likely need a completely different UI branch. It'll likely never replace IE10 on Windows 8 (especially in Metro) just because of how integrated IE10 is. I weep for Europe and anti-trust laws though, I can't imagine how stupid it'll be if they try to optionalize IE10.
Which version of Chrome are you using? I ask because I was on beta (15) and after getting sick of the problems I uninstalled it and redownloaded the stable version (14). Been using it for about an hour or so now, and so far, the problems seem to be fixed, whereas on the beta version I'd only have to be browsing for about five minutes before the problems would start.thecheese said:
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Somnid said:
Apps can still use Trident without being tied to Internet Explorer* (and have been for quite some time, that's the way the old Steam client worked for example.) So being forced to make IE10 shouldn't be a problem in itself, but it may make the experience degraded on tablets since that's the big deal for IE10. But if Chrome gets itself in gear before Windows 8 releases then it really shouldn't be a problem.
* I assume this. I can't imagine MS would be so stupid as to actually launch apps within IE10 itself without the chrome.
added_time
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Tambini said:
Maybe it's a sign to stop going to IGN!
(seriously though I just checked and no crashes here)
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OK, time to commence work on a new Chrome OT. (I won't be making a new thread. Rather I'll just edit the OP.)
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Jasoco said:
You middle click, then move your mouse up and down.
Ah yes. Just what I thought. But the only times I ever had that feature were when it was part of the mouse. Does your mouse driver not have that feature built-in? Or is it built-in but for some reason it's not working in Chrome? Because that's weird. What version of Chrome are you on?
Personally, I hate using any mouse ever since I got my MBP with the Magic Trackpad. I can't go back. Even if one day I decided I needed to get a desktop, I would use a standalone Magic Trackpad. Especially in Lion. What with all the gestures Lion takes advantage of.
Personally, I hate using any mouse ever since I got my MBP with the Magic Trackpad. I can't go back. Even if one day I decided I needed to get a desktop, I would use a standalone Magic Trackpad. Especially in Lion. What with all the gestures Lion takes advantage of.
For a while now, I've been having trouble with scrollbar freezing when loading pages. For about 5-8 seconds after loading a page, the scrollbar would freeze up. It doesn't sound like a long time, but it sure makes the browser feel sluggish. And don't even get me started when it came to starting up Chrome at the start of the day (I set Chrome to save my open tabs). Yesterday, I finally got around to diagnosing the problem. Not surprisingly, it was an extension -- Adblock Plus in particular. As soon as I disabled it, Chrome felt much snappier.
I've switched over to Adblock, and all's well. That said, are Adblock and Adblock Plus my only two viable options?
I've switched over to Adblock, and all's well. That said, are Adblock and Adblock Plus my only two viable options?
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Copernicus said:
It's a web app, so it makes more sense to pin it to the browser's app tray? I have it installed because of that, it fits better there than as a bookmark.
Oh and you're not really downloading it, you're installing it.
For stuff like Google Calendar, it's more clear. It plugs into Chrome's HTML5 unlimited storage permission for offline support, and just today it added the ability to register itself for your OS's Webcal links.
Andrex said:It's a web app, so it makes more sense to pin it to the browser's app tray? I have it installed because of that, it fits better there than as a bookmark.
Oh and you're not really downloading it, you're installing it.
For stuff like Google Calendar, it's more clear. It plugs into Chrome's HTML5 unlimited storage permission for offline support, and just today it added the ability to register itself for your OS's Webcal links.
Yeah, but I have it bookmarked. Why do I need another point to access it?
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Copernicus said:
You don't need it, but it's philosophically cleaner.
Dominican Power
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Someone give me one good reason why I should use Chrome over Firefox. I'm on Windows XP by the way.
Well there's your problem. Install either the shitty Logitech driver or download either USB Overdrive or Steermouse and give them a try. You're complaining about a mouse feature that isn't standard but Firefox happens to offer that can be easily implemented by using a driver.rhfb said:
How many buttons do you have? Is it just a two button one wheel mouse?
Do you have a lot of RAM?Full Metal Jacket said:
If you don't have much, but you like to use plenty of extensions and like to use a lot (A LOT) of tabs, I'd stick with Firefox. Chrome uses a lot of memory in that case.
But otherwise on my XP machine Chrome might be a little faster starting up (I have 2GB RAM). It's pretty much personal preference though.
So I guess I fail to give you a good reason, maybe someone else will have one.