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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:RAM use doesn't have a multiplier based on what year it is, a message board using almost 1GB of RAM after an hour is just bad memory management. There may or may not be a problem with your memory usage, but it is quite reasonable for a web browser to use more ram now than a year ago or 10 years ago. Software developers expect the average amount of RAM in a computer to increase as time goes by and either use it to do more or spend less developer time optimizing memory usage. Both of those are quite reasonable options.
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So I guess this is the year of Linux On The Desktop, since none of the recent dumb Chrome UI things have ever appeared with Chrome on linux!
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dpbjinc posted:Why does Chrome on Android take up so much goddamn memory? On a Nook HD Plus, it pretty much immediately crashes all my background apps, then after 15 minutes, crashes itself. Firefox on the same device has no such problem, but I can't use hover-and-click menus like the superforum menu on this site, which is pretty annoying. In case you're not aware: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3571717
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Sep 25, 2013 05:21
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Meat Recital posted:There is no general Google thread, but this seems like the place to bitch about the new home tab. Is there any way to get the Recently Closed button back? I loved that little guy. Not that I know of, but in case you weren't aware, it is now in menu>Recent Tabs.
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Sep 27, 2013 22:54
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Dennis Kucinich posted:Anyone have any suggestions for extensions or methods for managing a bunch of tabs at once? I just started a tech support job, and often I will be handling three live chats and a phone call at the same time. My tab bar quickly fills up and becomes impossible to manage, and I lose track of the "must-have" tabs that are opened constantly. Use multiple windows and put tabs for related tasks in each window. Simple to drag tabs between windows.
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Oct 26, 2013 00:55
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Thwomp posted:Anyone having trouble with forum tabs crashing on occasion? Yes, I've been getting this occasionally.
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Oct 31, 2013 19:01
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Nov 17, 2013 17:41
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More and more extensions are starting to do lovely things and it's getting frustrating. The Window Resizer extension which is nice to use for web dev work just started redirecting google search results through ecosia.org. That's a nice, charitable type of cause, but it's a lovely thing to start doing. Especially since right now ecosia.org isn't working right causing all links on a Google search page to not work. So, basically, every time one of my dozen or so extensions update I've got to look at a google searches, ads, shopping sites, etc to see what kinds of ads they're inserting or what links they're redirecting. Bah to you, extension authors. Bah!
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Jan 2, 2014 17:23
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So, does anyone else get random glitches in audio from video or music streaming sites? Like, if I'm watching a Youtube video or listening to Google Play Music, it'll not-infrequently, almost stutter with a "bzzzzt" sound. Having recently upgraded my PC to an i5-4670k, I thought that'd go away. Nope. So, today I did some experimenting and can't get it to stutter at all in Firefox.
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:After all the Heartbleed hoopla, I went and got Lastpass for password management, including installing the extension in Chrome. The only problem now is that Chrome is broken and runs slow as hell all the time; attempting a search straight up freezes the browser for 5-10, almost every webpage is slow to load including the new tab Home screen, syncing Chrome across devices seems to be permanently broke and I'm constantly getting prompts to "sign back in" to Google services. I don't have that problem with Lastpass and I've got like 700 sites saved in it. I realize this isn't terribly helpful except it might mean that your problem isn't actually Lastpass + Chrome.
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May 8, 2014 17:12
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unpronounceable posted:What's a good RSS feed extension? I used to use RSS Live Links, but apparently that's been removed from the store. I looked at the google one, but whenever I try to add a feed, it just takes me to some random site. I also looked at this one, but it won't even present entries in order. I think rss extensions have been taken over by sites like Feedly. No one really makes them any more.
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Jun 15, 2014 05:32
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Is there an extension or something to help me manage multiple Google accounts? I realize that Google sites have a drop down to allow selecting one of multiple accounts, but there's some sites I always want to use one or another account, and I've got to select it every drat time. For example, I'll never use any account on Play Music other than the one I signed up for All Access with...
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Jul 29, 2014 04:21
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maltesh posted:Would using multiple profiles on the computers you use Chrome on be too cumbersome? Yeah. All I have to do now is click my Google profile pic and then click the other account to sign in to it. It's just irritating that I'm always having to do it, but it's definitely easier than using a separate profile.
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Aug 3, 2014 03:08
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Generic Monk posted:Is there any way to sync extension settings like your history, bookmarks, installed extensions etc? Seems like most of my time reinstalling chrome is tweaking my extension options to how they were before so it seems like something that should really be in the pipeline. If you click the menu, there should be a menu option asking you to sign in to your Google account (I think it says "Sign in to Chrome..."). Do it and then set up sync. If you're already signed in to your Google account then you might not have sync configured. Go to the menu and then Settings and the first option should say something about sync.
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Aug 10, 2014 19:28
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hooah posted:However, this still doesn't sync the settings of various extensions. It does save some time, though. Yeah, I assumed he just typed the wrong thing because he said... quote:"extension settings like history, bookmarks, installed extensions"
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Aug 10, 2014 19:37
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baka kaba posted:Think 'like' was meant as 'in the same way as'. I don't know if Google would even sync stuff like that (it's sort of data they don't manage, it could be anything), but can't you back up extension data in your profile folder, or am I misremembering? Huh. I read that post multiple times and that potential reading of it didn't even occur to me for some reason. If that's what the poster meant...there is no centralized way of doing that. That's why when an extension offers it itself, it's a big plus in my book.
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Aug 11, 2014 15:22
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dik-dik posted:Is there any such thing as a chrome extension that will periodically remind me to check certain webpages? E.g. once a week I want a reminder to fill out the latest survey on Reward Survey. What about a calendar? Or an alarm?
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Just in case anyone else had a It's definitely worded in a head-scratchingly obtuse way.
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Sep 1, 2014 20:49
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Starting today, you can run some Android apps on ChromeOS.
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Sep 11, 2014 18:16
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Away all Goats posted:Does this double as the Chromecast thread? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3561652
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Sep 12, 2014 02:59
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dissss posted:There is absolutely nothing wrong with the screenshot you posted - that is normal for a 1080p display. Yeah, it looks normal to me. That's your punishment for browsing full screen on a high resolution display.
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Sep 21, 2014 12:32
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Combat Pretzel posted:Anyone else here using the dev branch, who's having issues with browsing incomplete websites? For a few days now, it seems like here and there the browser aborts in middle of the site load for no reason and renders the pages with broken CSS and no images. I get this on beta recently.
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Sep 27, 2014 16:32
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fuf posted:Hey has anyone ever noticed this problem? Everything about Google and using multiple accounts sucks. I hate it. That being said, you can use the profiles thing they've got now (the drop down up in the title bar) to do different accounts in different Chrome windows. It works well except you can't have tabs for different accounts in the same window.
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Oct 8, 2014 18:46
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fuf posted:Nice, that's good enough. Thanks Thermopyle you have helped me in multiple threads today Sometimes the stars align and I know multiple things that someone else wants to know. 
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Oct 8, 2014 19:03
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Just came across this sweet extension called Imgur to Gfycat. It replaces all imgur-hosted gifs, with gfycat hosted versions. If no one with the extension has seen the link, then it just displays the imgur gif, but it sends it to gfycat so all subsequent views for you and everyone else comes from gfycat.
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Oct 10, 2014 02:31
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Anyone compared the various ad blocking options recently? I've been using HTTP Switchboard since it was posted in this thread awhile back, but I'm always looking for something new because I'm a glutton for problems.
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Nov 8, 2014 23:20
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ThermoPhysical posted:Is HTTPS Switchboard better on memory than AdBlock Plus too or should I just go with uBlock? I'm assuming that HTTPS Switchboard does the exact same thing as uBlock just offers a lot more fine tuning controls. FWIW, I've used HTTP Switchboard for awhile but just switched to uBlock because I didn't use any of the features of HTTP Switchboard. I certainly haven't seen any performance differences between them.
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Nov 11, 2014 18:46
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caiman posted:Lately I've been receiving an error when opening Chrome: "Your profile could not be opened correctly." It pops up about 6 windows with this error. It only happens on my Linux installation, not Windows. I've followed the advice here about deleting the profile directories. This typically solves the problem for a day or two and then the error just starts showing up again. If I don't sign into my profile, I don't get the error. I had this problem a year ago and I had to uninstall all extensions then enable them one by one and give it a few days between enabling each so I could see which one was screwing stuff up. I found the culprit, but I can't remember which it was now.
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Nov 12, 2014 16:55
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I can't seem to find an extension to dial numbers with Google Hangouts. Like...click phone number on page: initiates phone call with Hangouts. Anyone know how to do this?
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Has anyone else noticed making and receiving calls with the hangouts extension is just terrible recently? My main problem is that when you answer a phone call, it keeps ringing for awhile. Like, you can talk to the person, but the ringing sound just keeps playing.
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Jan 31, 2015 20:11
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supermikhail posted:^^^The situation formulated more precisely. lol I just don't know what to say about this.
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Feb 1, 2015 22:04
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I'm still using YouTube center. No complaints. Well, there's one thing I would like... fix embeds that aren't set up correctly to have the full screen button. I'm looking at you, The Verge.
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Feb 6, 2015 18:34
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ThermoPhysical posted:Would it be worth switching to the new uBlock? yes
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Apr 6, 2015 19:19
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crestfallen posted:What is being added to the fork that is compelling? gorhill is going to maintain the original. It sounds like that's all he's going to do...maintain it, AKA bug fixes. Knowing lone developers, I'm sure that will not last long either. When a lone developer or small team says a product is in maintenance mode, you can put better than even odds on it being abandoned before long. Anyway, it takes like 1 minute or less to switch between them, so I have a hard time understanding what it means to ask if it's worth it.
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Apr 7, 2015 02:23
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Anyone else have Google Play Music act weird? I have All-Access, so I'm not sure if that matters, but when I'm playing a playlist or radio station, the currently playing song doesn't update at the bottom of the screen. It'll just continually show the info for the first song played even though it is actually playing the other songs in the playlist. Works fine in IE...
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May 13, 2015 00:04
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Gorilla Salad posted:Arrgh, why does Google have to do this poo poo? I really liked the cool nerd company that was all about experimentation and innovation. Everyone wants to be Apple nowadays, "Your user experience will be what we tell you it is It's really irritating, but it's probably a good change. People were getting owned by nefarious extensions. This should cut back on that at the expense of us nerds having a harder, but not impossible, time installing what we want.
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Generic Monk posted:this has always been google's m.o; see the multitude of lovely web app redesigns they've foisted on people. at least with apple the user experience is generally pretty good trending upwards. I'm fairly sure the general consensus is that google web app design has gotten drastically better.
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The best thing I've done for managing groups of tabs is to group them by window. It's not great, but it's the best I've come up with.
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