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sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Is there any way to make the address bar leaner?
The font size of the URL and the buttons are about 50% too large for my delicate taste.

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sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Something just changed while I was browsing the forums.
The tiles on the newpage tab now have little bars with text above them.
What is happening, I'm afraid of change :ohdear:

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
No one asked for it but v49 has bad scrolling enabled by default, you can disable it in about:flags (they have the audacity to call it smooth)

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004

Montalvo posted:

Is the PDF viewer in Chrome broken for anyone else? Mine hasn't been displaying in-browser PDF files properly for a while now.

Seems fine for simple Steam manuals and the like, but I always wondered why there are two internal plugins listed for pdf.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
uBlock Origin and uBlock Origin WebSocket yeah.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004

Pryor on Fire posted:

How does ublock origin websocket work? What's an example of a websocket ad that it blocks?

http://www.opensubtitles.org/ (probably a warez site? just an example)
Right sidebar ads

It's used a lot on scummy sites like porn that want to deliver ads at any cost.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
They are delivered through a new internet protocol called WebSocket, not http.
Because of an issue in Chrome, ublock origin can't filter those connections directly without its sister extension.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Another fine addition to the long list of Chrome's text rendering mishaps.
Why would it even use that, did Precision set it as the system default or something?

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
That happens when the website is trying to play a flash ad before the video.
It's a whole clusterfuck of scripts and different flash videos on top of each other that you'd have to allow seperately. Won't work without allowing flash in general, or always for this website.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Chrome 54 finally supports VP9 hardware acceleration (the youtube video standard) so you can turn off h264ify if you have a GTX 950/960, Pascal or Polaris card.
I think Intel is adding the hardware to their upcoming Kaby Lake CPUs, too.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Click with the mouse wheel?

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Are they loving around with the Flash policy again? In today's new build, the plugin keeps getting re-enabled at every browser restart. Just let it die already.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Could be the graphics driver making GBS threads the bed after sleep, do the problems persist through a real reboot (not Windows' hybernate/FastBoot things)

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004

Wrist Watch posted:

Sorry if my prefixes are wrong, in chrome's task manager it just says (insert number)k under the memory tab so I was just kinda winging it. All I'm really trying to say is Chrome is suddenly using like two to four times as much memory as it used to and it's got me a bit confused.

Open the windows task manager and check under details, add up the various instances of chrome.exe.
With 5 tabs (facebook, youtube, reddit, SA and a news website) and uBlock Origin it should be ~800 megabytes to maybe 1 gig

e; from a feshly started chrome. If you keep it running for days or have the "keep process open in the background" setting enabled, all bets are off

sauer kraut fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Jun 9, 2017

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
So google is actually going through with the adocalypse, nuking the older extension framework used by uBlock Origin etc for everything Chromium related.
We have a couple of months left, but I went ahead and made the switch to Firefox now. Moving the logins is as annoying as I feared it would be with over a dozen email/phone code verifications :smith:

Some of the fonts in Firefox look like rear end, and the scrolling feels way off. Chrome may be a data collecting monster, but it was nice

sauer kraut fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Oct 16, 2022

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
search-web-in-side-panel in flags
why yes, they keep renaming flags just to gently caress with us for not liking their garbo UI changes

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Purge cache and update all filters should do it for now with vanilla Chrome/uBlock Origin.
Let's hope YT doesn't start an adblocker-blocker arms race like Twitch :ohdear:

sauer kraut fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Oct 13, 2023

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
If you gently caress with doubleclick.net in any way you'll get that warning afaik.
I found out I had it redirected in my HOSTS file for many years :ohdear:

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Has YT found a way to counter the 300IQ strat of right click video -> open in incognito window yet?
So far that's been 100% nag free for me.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004

OgNar posted:

One of the last Chrome updates added padding to the menus/address.
For instance, my right click menu in Chrome now has to mouse scroll to see all options.
Is there a way to fix this?



The only possible lead I found was searching for Refresh 2023 in chrome://flags and disabling both of the results & restarting.
It only seems to happen when you have too many plugins putting their own lines in that menu.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Easy to browse, no.
Chrome doesn't keep clear names like butt_tiddies.jpg, it's a huge directory full of random files without the 3 letter type suffix.
You can find it here C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 1 (or something else)\Cache\Cache_Data
Maybe you can use an image browser to raw dog every file in a slideshow or something :unsmith:

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sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004

GoutPatrol posted:

Would anyone have an idea why trying to use the search bar in settings would give me a STATUS_IN_PAGE_ERROR? This is one of a few things my computer is doing strangely after putting in a new fan, and nothing else.

Can you set up a fresh profile and try it with that? Bonus points for disabling all extensions.
I don't have a crystal ball, but that sounds like something got corrupted in the bowels of your profile.

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