Jez wrote:
>
> I guess MMMV but I love the fact that Chrome just silently updates itself
> in the background without bothering me. But I appreciate that I'm lucky
> to have a fast connection. Occasionally Chrome waves a little flag at me
> to indicate that I'm going to have to restart it for some particular
> update to install itself but I like its minimalism. I wonder what file
> operations you're doing that Chrome can't handle? cheers jez
>
> On 9 August 2011 04:59, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > I detest programs which download stuff without asking first, and treat
> > then accordingly if I find them.
Here are my grouches about Chrome, cf slightly older versions of Opera.
I note that recent versions of Opera mimic Chrome, so I uninstalled them.
And I do appreciate that Chrome handles some modern code very well.
Anyway, here's my long list of complaint ...
Doesn't show how much (%) of the document is loaded
Or how many elements,
or the total size loaded,
Or the d/l speed
or the time taken so far to download the current page / image
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Doesn't show where, at any instant, the page / computer is being connected
to
Doesn't have a drop-down menu of the most important URLs
Doesn't remember where you stored stuff last
Doesn't have a % size resizer facility for pages and images
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Does not enable "View Source" (code) for the page being viewed
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Doesn't have the many usual file facilities
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Does impose it's damned logo on file and page types, and defeats the
Windows protocol for user setting of these
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Its bookmarks system is very clunky / awkward compared with Opera's
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Transfers, History, Links, Detailed preferences, Cache, Error console, Java
console, Page security info are all missing
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Doesn't seem to have a Help button
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Chrome updater - who knows what is being updated?
Given Google's propensity for data mining, and that a newly installed
Chrome was using the internet for its own purposes for what seemed to be
ages, I don't trust it one iota.
Brian Swale.
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