Comments on: 7 Things Google Chrome Needs – Now That It’s Out of Beta

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:36:06 +0000

I love Chrome, I really do. It’s a great browser and I’m using it right now, but there’s one little bug that irritates me to no end. If I click another tab from the page I’m already on sometimes, it’ll drag the tab out into it’s own window even though I didn’t drag the mouse at all. This keeps me from using Chrome all too much. As of now, all I use Chrome for is when Firefox feels like being lazy and keeps crashing.

By: all politics aside

all politics aside — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:15:21 +0000

Undo Close Tab definitely needed.

By: John

John — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:43:27 +0000

What I don’t understand is why there isn’t a ‘properties’ option when you right click an image. Often times, I’d like to check the dimensions of a certain image and I have to download the image and check it’s properties through Windows ImageViewer. Also, if Chrome could have something like Firebug for Firefox, it would be awesome. Right now the inspect element is ok but it’s no Firebug. One last thing, there seems to be a bug when I type in text boxes. For instance, when I type something and backspace it, some of the letters still remain. It’s weird and I don’t know a better way to explain it.

By: ABBA

ABBA — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:50:23 +0000

Chrome is good to browse google sites. LOL

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:03:27 +0000

What about those of us who like to send links of the page we are viewing ? Right click .. send link would be nice. I copied a send link script into my browser bar and yes I know I can copy/paste links, but I like the ease with which other (FF) browsers do it. How fricking hard could it be

By: Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:50:55 +0000

Hey Zord…

first off…the return key is your friend!

anyway, thanks for the lengthy response. I’m fully aware of “how to make a new tab into a window,” but there is a good reason I don’t do it. If you have everything in one window and you close that window, the session saver will remember all your tabs (which is unarguably important to me). If you have two windows open, and one is accidentally closed (very easy because they have non-standard window buttons), those tabs are pretty much lost! Only if you quit the program via the menu will multiple windows be saved.

My position is pretty well illustrated in this post on Google’s Chromium Blog, illustrating that they really understand the dilemma that users like me are having with the tab behaviors. It’s a really good read if you haven’t dealt this this kind of thing, or modal behaviors before:

http://blog.chromium.org/2009/01/tabbed-browsing-in-google-chrome.html

By: Zord

Zord — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:35:36 +0000

Jimmy, I support you in the tabs issue very strongly. Viewing all those comments on tabs made me disappointed and a bit angry at those who says that they can’t believe anyone have more than 5 or 8 tabs open. I am a blogger but when I blog, I don’t open so many tabs. Relax Jimmy, I’m on your side. But people!! Seriously, try asking yourself how long you will be browsing Internet? As a heavy user of the Internet, I know what Jimmy is facing. Being a manga reader (Japanese comic), surfing through my emails(which accumulates like 1000+ in a month, blame it on me), downloading things from *cough* illegitimate website, makes my tabs flooded. Not everyday I face with this problem, but when it does, go figure. The recent was when I was downloading songs. I just middle clicked happily until I realize that my other tabs is no longer visible. Tab management is important. And for those who couldn’t understand why is he having this problem, don’t ask until you are reading the news, reading your friends blog, writing your blog, doing your research on something, checking your email, finding torrents, reading torrent comments, Facebooking and finding the updates on some movie you want to watch. Then, screw Jimmy by telling him to open new window or stuff. Trust me, I think when you are opening tabs using the middle button, you just don’t bother opening up new window. And I like the vertical tab idea, and here is another suggestion, having two bars of tabs. And hey Jimmy, if you are the type that opens up a lot of link from one website, try dragging the tab out and then clicking freely. It works like a charm. Try getting used to it, it will make your surfing easier. Finally, if I have angered anyone by my comment, sorry but I was just voicing, or more better, typing my opinion.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:22:45 +0000

Has anybody seen anything that GOOGLE gave us that didn’t go over great. This will too…

I like it…

By: JRWhyte

JRWhyte — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:22:47 +0000

Google Chrome is a good, simply and easy to use browser but, I can’t send Hotmail emails using Google Chrome. Sometimes I have problem when I use Google Docs with Chrome and I need to open a new page and copy and paste the document that I am working.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:57:06 +0000

What I want:

1. Support master password, like firefox.
2. Provide online service for syncing between multiple computers.

Edwin
http://www.InnovationGear.com
MindVisualizer — Rapid Visual Mind Mapping Software
December 28, 2008

By: Aibek

Aibek — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:08:04 +0000

@ Civitas

Calling people with more than 15 people tabs retarted just shows nothing but ignorance from your side. There are dozens and dozens of Firefox extensions devoted to deal with tabs.

By: Kira

Kira — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:43:00 +0000

I love chrome, now it’s my fav browser. But i’ve changed PC to Mac not long ago .. and now i’m pleading Goggle to create Chrome for mac, pleaase!

By: Sergey

Sergey — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:47:54 +0000

It also needs to fix the hotmail bug..

By: Serena

Serena — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:01:47 +0000

The only advantage I experienced with Chrome is, its read and execute the Javascript functions quickly when compared with other browsers…

By: Raymond

Raymond — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:39:36 +0000

in terms of “chrome” as what the ie tab uses. The term refers to area of ff in which the ui and all extensions execute. Also, there’s no need to create an entire rendering engine to mimic IE, most sites will check for IE by looking at the User Agent header, which is easily spoofed.

By: alice

alice — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:00:05 +0000

No doubt. Chrome is great. But please give me the export bookmark option! and more extensions, extensions, extensions and extensions!!

By: smoker

smoker — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:19:32 +0000

Just use Opera. It’s what Chrome copied anyway..

By: Kane

Kane — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:53:42 +0000

The only advantage I experienced with Chrome is, its read and execute the Javascript functions quickly when compared with other browsers..

By: Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:45:13 +0000

No UR RETARDED (jk)

But in all seriousness, I don’t know THAT many geeks that don’t have similar usage. We’re all drunk on the power of the tab. I have Google Reader open with all the things i click through behind it, then I have upcoming story idea articles, then stories I’m working on with all their sources open…

If I use multiple windows, btw, it is much less efficient for some reason and if I accidentally close one window those tabs are lost (whereas I usually have session saver turned on so crashes don’t hurt me).

By: Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:37:59 +0000

awesome, never thought it would be that simple, lol

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:21:42 +0000

No doubt. Chrome is great. But please give me the export bookmark option! and more extensions, extensions, extensions and extensions!

By: David

David — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:00:20 +0000

It also needs to fix the hotmail bug.

By: Civitas

Civitas — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:35:45 +0000

In regards to your tab problem, you need to learn to not open so many tabs then.
“oh dear! I have 15 tabs and they’re starting to disappear!”
You are retarded to have that many tabs open. Learn to be more efficient, just like your beloved chrome.

By: cidman2001

cidman2001 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:44:10 +0000

I have all the major browsers…why I’m not sure. I’ve been using Chrome since the day it came out. It just so happened that I was having major problems with IE. I had been a faithful IE user up to that point. I was also using FF as second browser. I liked the extensions and all, but I found myself playing with stuff more than I was browsing or being productive.

The simplicity of Chrome was kind of hard to swallow at first. But as I found myself zipping around the web I realized how much I didn’t need all that other crap. I’ll stick with Chrome and hope they only tweak it a bit here or there and avoid the inevitable bloat.

By: cidman2001

cidman2001 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:29:09 +0000

I have 3 kids all running Pentium 3 with the fastest machine having 512mb of ram and all running XP. You’ll find, as I do in doing repair work, that there are tons of people out there that haven’t bridged the “Vista Ready” hardware gap yet.

You’re right that the prices for ram will drop. That doesn’t mean that everyone will run out and buy ram. I may just skip Vista all together or pick a Vista machine up cheap when Windows 7 comes out…

By: cidman2001

cidman2001 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:16:41 +0000

I just copy the url of the page into the “add a feed” button in Reader. It works pretty well for most sites.

By: ntopics

ntopics — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:45:19 +0000

Hopefully, browser to website compatability will be an issue
of the past when the security strength of new
browsers are accepted.

thanks from tony

By: Chihuahua Geek

Chihuahua Geek — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:41:48 +0000

The only advantage I experienced with Chrome is, its read and execute the Javascript functions quickly when compared with other browsers

By: Alec

Alec — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:20:31 +0000

Use different windows for each story, keeping them together. That way you have 5 windows with 6 tabs each. Much easier to keep things organized that way, IMO.

By: venkat

venkat — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:17:13 +0000

@Jimmy Rogers Nice article on Chrome ,all your suggestions are worthy to Google for look at,Flash is most annoying aspect chrome not handling flash content websites very well it just hangs and crashes ,Extensions are coming soon for Chrome ,and coming to auto detection of RSS Feeds in chrome they are already on the way to roll this to Chrome not yet enabled to us check here http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/user-experience/feed-subscriptions