understanding browsers

[chronovore]

Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project: so cool, it has its own comic book by Scott McCloud.

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[professormass.livejournal.com]

Chrome is more of the same old crap. The essential problem with the Web is the Web -- people stacking onto a broken foundation.

Don't worry, though. I've figured out how to fix it.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

I literally did a spit-take on reading that last line. Not figuratively, not proverbially. Real spit.

[professormass.livejournal.com]

And the best of that is?

I wasn't kidding.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

This is why you scare me.

[nattotastic.livejournal.com]

in all honesty, google marketing generally makes me facepalm but google chrome looks pretty neat. The "one process per tab" idea is good, but I thought that Firefox already did that. I really like the "built-in task manager" thing and their testing process of checking against their own ranking system is a great use of a pretty obvious resource at their disposal. The redone javascript engine is interesting also. I'm a bit more skeptical about that one, we'll have to see how it goes.

[nattotastic.livejournal.com]

So, I downloaded the beta and have been using it all day. I like it, but have two super-minor issues with it:
1. Doesn't remember user-entered data. Firefox rules the school with that feature. It's necessary for my line of work.
2. No title bar. Page titles are in your tabs, which is interesting but when you have a lot of tabs open, you can't read the title in the focused tab because it's size is a fraction of the overall width times the number of tabs. Nobody cares about this except me.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

I'm in it now. My first experience with Chrome was not stellar. It defaulted the download page to Japanese, though Firefox is an EN-US edition, and my language prefs are set to EN-US, EN, JA (in that prioritization)). After choosing the English language on the download page, it downloaded a copy and installed a multilingual version which came up in Japanese, my OS's language. There is no Pref for language setting, so I quit out, found the localization files, and renamed the Japanese .dll so it couldn't find it; WHAMMO, defaults to English.

Fuckers really want me to work to get a browser up and running, it seems.

[nattotastic.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that's wierd. My version that I downloaded installed as Japanese, because I have everything on this system setup for japanese character input, display, etc. But there's setting on Options->Minor Tweaks called "Change font and language settings" and you can set the language there. I was actually proud of myself that I could still read enough Japanese to get in and figure that out.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Golly! You're right! I'm embarrassed that I didn't notice that.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

BTW, yeah, I remember field history being kinda important at ReleaseNow... ;^)

[nattotastic.livejournal.com]

Here's an irony-that-kills-you moment: IE doesn't do field history either unless you install google toolbar which provides that functionality. I wonder if I need to install google toolbar on google chrome just to get that functionality?

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

They did a neat thing with the status bar: it's hidden until you hover on a link.

Hovering on a tab should display the name just beneath the tab. I bet they fix that pretty quick, since this is v. 0.2.nnnn