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I find Speed dial 2 to be essential - It's the best of the various speed dial extensions. I set out wanting something that would let me choose the thumbnails on the new tab page...a horrific oversight in the default new tab page, but it also brings up a searchable bookmarks and recently closed listings by moving your mouse to the right of the screen. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jpfpebmajhhopeonhlcgidhclcccjcik
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hotsauce posted:I love Chorme. I'm heavily invested into the Google ecosphere. Gmail, calendar, reader, etc, everything so naturally I use Chrome. I'm prepared to bet money you have some sort of malware on your computer. no way a web browser is responsible for the fault you describe
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Anal Tributary posted:While this would be terrible in most applications, in Chrome I actually like how every now and then when I start it up something totally new is there. The new Mac version has new little back/forward trackpad gesture indicators. Not sure if I like them more than the old ones, and I don't really know why they needed new ones, but sure, why not, Chrome? The one thing that annoys me about chrome is how difficult it is to figure out what additions have been made in each version, and what they do. I end up having to look on Wikipedia or Google entries from the about :flags page. Would it kill them to throw up a tab with a change log and detailed explanations every time it updates?
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Mar 30, 2012 23:48
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StickFigs posted:I used to love the Neat Bookmarks extension but apparently it's been taken off of the Chrome Webstore because of "malvertizing" or something. Are there any extensions that do the same thing that DON'T look like rear end? I used to use it too. Turns out it was hijacking the ads displayed on websites you viewed and replacing them with other ones. I never noticed because I blocked all ads anyway. I'm using a similar alternative (can't remember the name right now and I'm not at home right now) but none of them are as elegant)
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May 20, 2012 03:28
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Speed Dial 2 does recently closed tabs, as well as being a hands down more useful replacement to the new tab page.
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Sep 6, 2012 13:44
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Pilsner posted:It's over 1½ years old now, but I only just today discovered this comment to the Chromium issue about type-ahead find: Correct me if I'm wrong, but based on a quick Google search this is basically just like using control-f to search for something but without having to hit control-f first? Sounds like a pretty trivial thing to get fired up over.
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Sep 7, 2012 15:39
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Fuschia tude posted:How could you possibly fit the address bar and the tabs in one line? Internet explorer does this by having a half width address bar, since the address bar doesn't really need to stretch the length of the screen, and tabs next to it. On the other hand, it doesn't have the address and tab line sitting on the title bar like the tabs do in chrome, so assuming a fully maximised window chrome and IE take up the same amount of space with the interface.
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Nov 12, 2012 12:34
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ILikeVoltron posted:So I blow at spelling and use the 'dict' search engine all the time, but I've noticed lately that the history results come up before the search engine site. So I end up hitting dict, tab, tab, tab, tab <stuff>. The lack of omnibox configuration has really bothered me, anybody else run into this? Oh yea, you can delete the history item but as soon as you do the next search you have to tab tab tab again. Using the space bar instead of tab to activate a search engine avoids this. Also note that you can configure the search key to be anything you want. I use two letter keys for everything.
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Nov 29, 2012 03:07
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the posted:So which ad blocker best prevents LiveJasmin? I'm pretty sure not visiting dodgy porn sites prevents LiveJasmin with roughly 100% effectivness but depending on your...resources...I suppose it may be a case of the prevention being worse than the affliction.
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What is it with chrome having the worst spell checker on the face of the earth? It's almost incapable of suggesting the correct word for a misspelling.
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Feb 15, 2013 05:52
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Thingyman posted:Are you typing stuff like "frst fgt lb he mon"? It fails to suggest the correct spelling for 95% of spelling mistakes I make.
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Feb 15, 2013 13:51
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biznatchio posted:I got tired of SA threads that have a bunch of inlined videos making the browser hang terribly, so I made an extension to make inline YouTube videos on the forums ultra lightweight -- it loads the video thumbnail as a regular image and overlays a play button and the video title on top, and defers creating the actual video player until you click on it. Posting it here in case anyone else finds it useful. Switching flash to click to play works well too.
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Feb 19, 2013 01:14
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Everyone just install speed dial 2 and be happy, you'll never want for anything.
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Phobophilia posted:3 questions, now that I'm transitioning my home and work computers to Chrome. In chrome, you do this by entering search terms into the main URL bar. You set up keywords for each site you want to search; for example, the way I've set mine up, if I want chrome to search for something on google, I enter [searchterm] in the url bar. If I want chrome to search wikipedia for something, I type wi [searchterm] and chrome will search wikipedia. you set this up for other sites as well, eg im [searchterm] for IMDB or yo [searchterm] for youtube. It ends up being much faster than the firefox method of selecting a search engine from a pulldown menu.
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Apr 22, 2013 05:59
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ToG posted:
You can also manually set each plugin to be enabled/disabled/click to play by going to Chrome:plugins. Also consider going to Chrome:flags for advanced experimental features.
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Apr 24, 2013 03:28
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syphon posted:In the latest dev version (28.0.1485.0) they removed the Most Visited links/thumbnails from the new tab page altogether. I hope that's just a temporary thing in this build and not a design direction they're taking. The implementation was never that good, speaking as someone who wanted to specify exactly what links appeared there. You had to jump through too many hoops to get the links you wanted, and there were never enough thumbnails. I made the move to speed dial 2 a long time ago and have never looked back.
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Apr 27, 2013 03:32
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The entire point of a chromebook is that everything is done via a web browser using the cloud. If that isn't your cup of tea you probably need to install Ubuntu or Linuxmint on it.
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Assuming your chromebook uses regular laptop hardware and not an Arm CPU it should be no different from installing any other operating system. Linuxmint is probably the most novice friendly Linux distro. If you have a dvd drive you just download it, whack it on a DVD and install, otherwise I'm pretty sure you can do it from a USB stick.
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Okposolypse posted:No DVD drive, but Ill look into this, gues its time to check out the linux thread. Thanks. It's worth pointing out, (again assuming the chromebook isn't ARM based), you could always stick Windows on it. (But it will likely run like poo poo if it's one of those dirt cheap chromebooks)
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myron cope posted:Hey Okposolypse, Lifehacker just put up a guide to installing (ubuntu) Linux on a chromebook http://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-and-unlock-its-ful-509039343 I should note that choosing linuxmint instead should be a very similar process. Depending on your preferences you might find it a less radical change from windows. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 04:52 on May 22, 2013 |
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May 22, 2013 04:35
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It's google chrome. You are supposed to be permanently logged into your google account to maintain proper browser functionality.
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May 23, 2013 03:45
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Heavy_D posted:I've just been upgraded to version 27 (I'm on the normal update stream because the updater chokes my poor single-core computer to the point that I can't browse). Suddenly the preloader is doing unpleasant things. For example, if I launch a google search for "rebel girl", google predicts that I will want the top search result, which happens to be a youtube clip of the song called "rebel girl". It then preloads that page, and starts playing the song. When I close the search results tab, the preload continues playing in the background - chrome task manager is the only way to stop it. This is why you SHOULD have click to play enabled. Then flash and poo poo doesn't even load until you specifically activate it.
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wa27 posted:Yeah, what the hell is this? Now if you search from the address bar or from the google search box in a new tab, the search box disappears on the page and you have to use the omnibox. That's... ok I guess since it saves a bit of space. But why would they hide the bookmark bar? Did they not consider that I would want to go to one of my bookmarks from a google results page? Consider using one of the many addons that give you access to your bookmarks from a pull down menu that you access by clicking an icon. Then you never have to waste space with a bookmark bar.
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Jun 8, 2013 04:24
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It's not insanity, it's the reality of 2013. It's unreasonable to have a computer with only 2gb of Ram and expect it to run acceptably, when the norm is 4gb or really even 8gb.
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It happens if you leave chrome open for like a week or something. I only shut the PC down once a month or so and my Ram usage with chrome permanently open approaches 4gigs or so by the time I shut down.
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I'm still struggling to understand why people use the default new tab page vs something like speed dial 2.
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Sep 29, 2013 05:32
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Michael Scott posted:Why would you post this without telling us how you removed it? Clearly he wanted to bask in the torment of your damnation.
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Nov 4, 2013 08:44
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I've been replacing my new tab page with speed dial 2 for ages. It's far more useful.
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booshi posted:Today I started up Chrome on my Mac (10.9.2) and even though I've always had notifications disabled in chrome://flags, today it keeps giving me notifications every hour. It looks like Google Now type notifications (birthday today, current weather, how my sports teams did). If this is disabled in flags how can I stop it because I really hate notifications. when chome updates it will often do whatever google wants to the flags page in order to subject you whatever experiment google wants to conduct on you.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Lately, the Chrome beta for Windows has started randomly not rendering random characters. The space is there for them, but the character itself is missing. I assume it has something to do with the recent addition of DirectWrite, but it can make reviewing JSON returned from a server especially difficult, as it seems to also happen in the developer tools as well. I had this happen, and I can confirm it went away when I turned off DirectWrite.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Sounds like I know what I'm doing on Monday morning! Well to be fair the stuff under chrome:flags is experimental. Us tech savvy folk are the guinea pigs. Nobody would have encountered this bug if they hadn't specifically gone into the experimental options to turn on DirectWrite, and I doubt the average person knows they exist.
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Everyday Lurker posted:So I'm having this problem. this is caused by enabling experimental direct write support in the flags page. It goes away when you disable it. Sadly some experiments on that page are more experimental than others
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baka kaba posted:I get weird font poo poo on beta too (like on the SA bookmarks list) that sometimes goes back to normal if I restart Chrome. DirectWrite is turned on. Chrome is just hilariously hosed up in so many ways, there's always something going wrong with it. I don't even know why I still use it, but here I am :/ I've kept an eye on Firefox over the years; and at the end of the day chrome still has a handful of features I can't live without: 1. The search mechanism, using a short key followed by a search term to search a specific site like wikipedia 2. The ability to impose a global zoom level, which Firefox still doesn't have - you have to rely on changing font sizes (which breaks formatting on websites) and then zooming on a page by page basis, rather than setting a global 150% zoom level.
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Riso posted:But you can do that in firefox by adding a key to the search config. I didn't know that, I'll have to take another look. Having global zoom is still my number 1 requirement though.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I updated Chrome to "36.0.1985.143 m" today and now every single YouTube video embedded into a thread here will autoplay. I normally keep flash set to 'click to play'
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ThermoPhysical posted:I've tried that in the past but it seems to break quite a bit of websites I go to. Even if they don't have Flash visibly (or embedded otherwise) in the page. As far as I'm concerned it's all the websites that abuse flash that are doing it wrong.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Pretty sure it's the browser this time. I just enabled click to play and it still autoplays. I was being facetious. In any event many embedded vids use HTML5 by default nowadays so they load up and play; and retarded website designers seem to think people want videos and music clips to start playing by themselves. My point was that many many websites use flash just because they can, when really they shouldn't; and I just want to find your menu or make a reservation but I need to sit through flash animations and idiotic transition effects... you get the point. Flash pretty much needs to die.
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Nezzar posted:That did it. Thank you. Google often uses its users as guinea pigs, arbitrarily enabling different experimental settings on random samples of people for testing. It may just have been pushed out to you with an update.
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As far as direct write goes, if you've run the cleartype configuration, and you still don't like it you can still disable it in the chrome://flags page - it just defaults to on now that's all. Personally I like it. I think it also pays to use the right font with it as well - I like to use Segoe UI.
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xilni posted:Ah the struggle between option 3 and 4 in step 3. This may give me a nightmare about making the wrong choice. It's not supposed to look like that. That sort of blurriness can be caused by a couple of things. 1. Are you using windows 8? If so: right click on the Chrome executable, hit properties, and go to the compatibility tab. Select 'Disable display scaling on high DPI settings' 2. Do you have an AMD graphics card? There is a particular AA setting in the control panel which fucks up various programs if you tick it. I don't have an AMD card anymore but from memory its called Morphological AA. It could also be your choice of font I guess. Chrome's default font is Times New Roman for some reason which should have died out a long time ago.
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