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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 07, 2008, 11:09 AM »

Using Dirhael's nice updater, I downloaded the exe.
Clicked on it a few times, nothing happened (no install wizard came up). I looked in the process explorer and have a few instances for googleUpdater. Damn. What did I do wrong?

I'm worried the updater is not working.

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General Software Discussion / javascript heads: how is dragonfly compared to firebug?

« Last post by urlwolf on September 06, 2008, 04:18 PM »

I don't use javascript often enough to know, but I just started looking at dragonfly alpha 2 and it looks damn nice. I think it has improved a lot.

Anyone who actually uses JS a lot care to comment on where they differ and which one is best?

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General Software Discussion / Re: real reason chrome exist is to prevent microsoft from making a sucky browser

« Last post by urlwolf on September 06, 2008, 04:16 PM »

Why do you think Chrome suck?
Techically, it's a webkit-based browser. I don't see how that makes it suck.

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General Software Discussion / real reason chrome exist is to prevent microsoft from making a sucky browser

« Last post by urlwolf on September 06, 2008, 03:34 PM »

http://www.pbs.org/c...20080905_005415.html

Interesting hypothesis!

"What Google does not want is Microsoft creating a browser that sucks. Actually, Google doesn't mind if Microsoft's browser sucks. What they really don't want is Microsoft to make a browser that sucks and everyone ends up using it. And, if the IE8 beta shows us anything, making a really sucky web browser is Microsoft's true ambition."

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General Software Discussion / Re: [How To] Set keyboard shortcuts in Google Chrome

« Last post by urlwolf on September 06, 2008, 03:09 AM »

obviously, I didn't. But this makes it a showstopper for me. maybe there's a way to find what kind of window the mouse is over at a particular time? I don't know ahk well enough to say; the autoIT spy that comes with ahk does give you that kind of info. If chrome doesn't change much, it may be possible to autodetect.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you manage your email?

« Last post by urlwolf on September 05, 2008, 03:40 PM »

I use Opera M2. Great productivity tool -as long as you don't need PGP-. Does IMAP fine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [How To] Set keyboard shortcuts in Google Chrome

« Last post by urlwolf on September 05, 2008, 08:57 AM »

I tried it, but the shortcuts are not helping. If I type an url, I want the shortcuts to be off (otherwise, it closes my tab if I type a 'c' for example). Is this the behavior you intended?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- key reasons for its debut

« Last post by urlwolf on September 04, 2008, 09:42 AM »

Just did a quick benchmark with memory usage.
If you open task manager, you'll see as many chrome.exe processes as you have tabs + 1. Adding that memory is quite worrying, actually.

With a few tabs open, I got:
35 + 10 + 6 + 26 + 19 + 8 + 34 + 65 = 203 Mb. quite a lot, doble than Opera with the same tabs open.

These things I really miss from Opera:
Smooth scroll
Fit to width
M2
intellicomplete working

So I'm sticking to the broken, but trusty, Opera for now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2008, 05:29 PM »

I love this comment though:

Chrome is, practically, a brilliant new operating system. It has a new permissions structure, built in malware protection, a compiler, a javascript virtual machine, a task manager, a rendering engine, a new process management system, local storage, and is wicked fast. This is the biggest technical jump in browser tech since mosaic.

You'd hear this much about a new windows or mac os, but it would mean far less. Chrome will open the way for web apps that are as good, as robust, and as beautiful as desktop apps. It's more than just hype.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2008, 05:22 PM »

It can be fixed by disabling autocompleter in options:
http://coderrr.wordp...orse-than-you-think/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2008, 04:34 PM »

Apparently chrome will also automatically download executables from any URL without prompt. We can see here that Mountain View was obviously exercising the good old head noodle when they added that "feature" *cough*vulnerability*cough*.

Ehtyar.

-Ehtyar (September 03, 2008, 04:25 PM)

Well, this is even scarier:
http://news.cnet.com...ewsLeadStoriesArea.0

Google is looking more and more evil by the minute.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2008, 10:38 AM »

ahh, finally a decent copy-paste with formatting .
It also has spelling on textboxes. Great.
The only thing I miss for fully moving away from Opera is M2 and (gmail could do) and intellicomplete working. Tough call on that one, as it's abandonware.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2008, 10:32 AM »

Thanks Lashiec.

Also, does anybody know how to change the minimum default size in Chrome?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2008, 10:07 AM »

Lashiec, is this what you mean by Opera's adblocker:
http://mtsix.com/art...a-9-ad-blocking.html

It's primitive as hell, you have to select ads you don't want to see by hand!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2008, 09:59 AM »

Did you see the way it marks search occurrences on the left scroll bar? Nifty! (Search is ctrl F)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2008, 09:49 AM »

Conveniently, admuncher cannot stop ads in google Chrome :0
I hope they (admuncher) release a new version addressing this new browser.
Although I don't think it'll happen fast. There are people in the opera forums with a sig that says: "do not support admuncher, development is too slow".

I also suspect that because I'm running admuncher, some javascript-heavy sites are misbehaving more than they should too. For a start, google sites under opera and FF is unusable. If I turn off admuncher, it works fine.

Will we be able to browse the net without ads in chrome?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What do you use to bookmark and annotate your .chm files?

« Last post by urlwolf on September 02, 2008, 10:23 AM »

I think KDE has a tool that does all this. It's called oKular. With KDE4 coming to windows it may be a good solution.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 02, 2008, 10:21 AM »

scarecrow marketing
No idea, I just made that up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by urlwolf on September 02, 2008, 07:23 AM »

Interesting how they have copied many things opera has invented.
THe url box inside the tab, the better autocompletion, speed dial...

I'm excited about this. I'm sure most sites will render well because their approach to testing it is brilliant.

I'm sure the other contenders are shitting their pants about now.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by urlwolf on August 30, 2008, 08:47 AM »

In summer - Winter is dusty and dirty here! And the grass 'dies'...

-CleverCat (August 30, 2008, 05:02 AM)

What bird is that?

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Living Room / Re: If somebody offers you swapping your PC for a mac cold turkey: would you do it?

« Last post by urlwolf on August 29, 2008, 02:22 PM »

Great post Carol.
I agree. using andlinux (great virtualization solution) bypassed all the hardware problems on my laptop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: opera downward spiral into oblivion: most sites don't work, they don't care

« Last post by urlwolf on August 27, 2008, 02:34 PM »

37signals has an interesting post that somehow rings a bell on how Opera doesn't implement what users suggest (instead it comes out with things that are innovative, but not user-suggested, but that's another story):

http://www.37signals...ng-at-your-customers

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Living Room / Re: If somebody offers you swapping your PC for a mac cold turkey: would you do it?

« Last post by urlwolf on August 27, 2008, 02:32 PM »

@40hz: yes, this is at work. Which could be a problem since at home I wouldn't have a mac and synch'ing could be painful (it already is within the same OS).

@Dormouse: good points.

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Living Room / If somebody offers you swapping your PC for a mac cold turkey: would you do it?

« Last post by urlwolf on August 27, 2008, 11:02 AM »

I now work on a hybrid linux/winXP machine (linux main OS, XP on VMware).
I have been offered to get a Mac Pro in exchange for my machine (long story, new people coming to our group are mac heads).

I think it could be a time investment, but if push comes to shove, I could run XP on parallels as I do now with XP on linux.

If you had the opportunity, would you take it?

Note: I'm happy with my current system, but mainly because I spend most on my time on winXP. When I have to do serious programming, I'll spend most on my time on linux, just because ruby runs a lot better there and there are better tools and command line on linux... but I'm tempted by Macs. I've never played around with one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: opera downward spiral into oblivion: most sites don't work, they don't care

« Last post by urlwolf on August 24, 2008, 02:58 PM »

Looks like many users are reporting similar things. Small annoyances, but many a day, make it a bit too much:

http://my.opera.com/.../topic.dml?id=247337

However, 9.60 (alpha) was released today.
Great to see improvement in M2. And very innovative! Low bandwidth mode is a great idea. Congrats!

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