Mr. Enigma
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ThatObviousUser
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Yup, updated the OP.
That's awesome.
ThatObviousUser
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Although "experimental," Web Intents are fully enabled in the new Chrome 19 stable build.
Really cool stuff, hopefully other browsers follow suit.
Really cool stuff, hopefully other browsers follow suit.
Looks like fighting words between ChromeOS/Android.
joy.
ChromeOS just got more interesting.
So very cool.
ThatObviousUser
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More like Google is pushing the web to become more Android-like so in 100 years or whatever when they ditch Android, the web will be able to do all that Android did and more.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
From Ars Technica last month (stats from when 17 was the standard version of Chrome), but I only saw it a few days ago:
Is any picture more beautiful to a Web Developer's eyes?
Okay, now, to break your heart:
Is any picture more beautiful to a Web Developer's eyes?
Okay, now, to break your heart:
You should have it in your settings when you sign into chrome, next to sync for history/bookmarks/etc.
I updated to 19 and it wasn't there by default so I turned it on in the flags option. Should it be there by default?
I'm not sure now, I think I might have enabled it a long time ago and forgot about it.
Gaf on suicide watch confirmed?
From Ars Technica last month (stats from when 17 was the standard version of Chrome), but I only saw it a few days ago:
How are so many people still using older versions of Chrome when it pretty much auto-updates itself without any user intervention? Shouldn't the vast majority be on version 18/19? Or am I reading the graph wrong.
ThatObviousUser
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The saddest I'd ever probably get at a product's death.
Still, it's open source so I'm not too concerned.
Dutch Mafia
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the new IE lets me download chrome faster
ThatObviousUser
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You are. The x-axis is time, meaning that 17 at the time controlled a vast majority of Chrome's market share.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
<4% of people browsing the Internet are using Chrome versions before 17, which was current when that picture was taken.
Meanwhile 10% of Internet Traffic is still using IE6
Mr. Enigma
Member
I really want to meet someone that is still using IE6. Maybe they can wow me with their 256MB of RAM too.
I think his point is that the value should be much closer to 0, since, if left on it's own Chrome will stay up to date without any intervention.
I would guess it's mostly from usage in countries with slow internet speeds.
Lord British
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Just made Chrome my default yesterday after one too many Firefox crashes. It's awesome so far. Any recommend extensions, or is there a seperate thread for that?
ThatObviousUser
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Lord British
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Oh, the NeoGAF ones are already installed. 
Thanks for the links.
Thanks for the links.
ThatObviousUser
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Yeah, it seems to be slightly more responsive to me even on my fast work computer.
Miscellaneous things about 19 I've noticed:
- New lighter, more 3D globe icon for pages that don't have favicons.
- New caret animation when using OpenSearch.
Hopefully the downloads page (Ctrl+J) will be integrated into the Uber Page when 20 hits. It's so ugly and out of place now (well, more than before.)
Dominican Power
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Flash crashes too often on Chrome. I wish it had the same address bar as FF.
ThatObviousUser
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Gotta say, I do like the animations on the Uber Page. In fact it's really quite good and I like how it's more consistent with the rest of Chrome (like the new tab page.) I just wish the left hand navigation was larger, or at least thicker and more clickable.
added_time
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what is the uber page?
ThatObviousUser
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New integrated settings page for Chrome 19+. Has extensions, history, and settings.
JonathanEx
Member
Or some corporate environments. At my uni, there is an official way to install Chrome, but it's through hoops, and it doesn't update well/often. Grrahhhhhh
So is this new update the reason why some noise happens every time I start Chrome up now? It used to only happen when I went to gawker sites but now after re-setting it so gaf pops up first again it happens every time. Would like to know what that is or what's running that wasn't before.
ThatObviousUser
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Chrome frame those bishes. You don't even need admin rights anymore.
It's not the real thing, but you're making your browsing experience a bit better (many times better, on some sites) and giving web devs like me a reason not to claw our eyes out when we see how many morons are still stuck on IE.
What do you mean by "some noise?" Like, actual audio coming out of your speakers?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The worst part about the LHS attributes is that they're profoundly unequal, and "Help" is even mislabeled. It doesn't bring you to "Help", it brings you to About/Copyright/Version. You then have to click a help button on that page to actuall go to anything that gives any help.
Meanwhile, very regular settings are hidden away under advanced settings on the right-hand pane of the Settings page, rather than keeping the existing General / Personal / Under the Hood division and putting those in the LHS navigation.
And you still can't automatically clear history beyond a particular point, which boggles me. I like history, so I want history turned on. I don't need history from two months ago and for privacy purposes I'd rather it clears after, say, 3 days. This is not difficult to implement or a UI challenge that would make it impossible to make stuff beautiful. I really don't get why they've chosen not to implement it. I don't think it's an unusual use case either, since every other browser has it.
The animations are pretty swag, though.
I don't know how to describe it but it's the same noise java stuff always made when activating. Like I said I only usually heard it on Chrome when I went to gawker sites after their redesign but I never knew what was causing it, whether it was flash related or something similar. It doesn't cause any problems but it's kind of annoying.
ThatObviousUser
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I had the same misgivings when they merged the page and wrench menus, but it's gotten better and honestly I don't really change the settings so much that it'll be an issue. The good thing is that since all the settings are in one place (even with half of them below an expander) it makes it easier to direct people. Although you could also just tell them to search for it since Chrome's setting/history search is fricking awesome.
Java makes noise when it starts up?
I thought it did but it's been a while since I used it. I know Norton makes the noise too when I bring up its main menu but I'm sure most people here aren't familiar with using that. As far as I can tell nothing bad is happening so it must be some background process going on. Whatever was in this latest Chrome update makes it happen every time I start up a new session though, no matter what site starts up first.
Metalmurphy
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For some reason all the Bookmarks I had in a folder just disappeared... Does chrome keep a backup somewhere?
ThatObviousUser
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Best new feature of Chrome 19 I almost missed:
Opening folders in new tabs from the bookmarks bar doesn't give focus to any of those new tabs.
Opening folders in new tabs from the bookmarks bar doesn't give focus to any of those new tabs.
You're slacking Andrex:
http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/0...ernet-explorer-as-the-webs-most-used-browser/
http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/0...ernet-explorer-as-the-webs-most-used-browser/
No, it's Lucida Grande.
As the settings page is just a normal html page, you can use the web inspector (right click -> inspect element) to see the font and all other properties.
yeah, but the font-family used on my version (Win 7) is
I'm assuming they do something that makes the included styles platform specific.
anyway, thanks for the info.
ThatObviousUser
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The war was won long ago as far as I'm concerned. Still, it warms my web dev heart to hear that (a similar story broke earlier this year wear Chrome usage surpassed IE for one weekend.)
It's done preferential through HTML, so if it finds Segoui, it'll use it, then move to tahoma, and then finally to any sans-serif on the system. At that point the OS, or user can set whatever sans serif it wants through settings.