I suppose i should not make a new topic which can lead to several
possible discussion threads, but here's a list of things I'm still
missing from Chrome. All these features are available on other
browsers (all I.E. based, i never use FF). I've been using them a lot
in those browzerz and I can assure you that I cannot live without
them :D jk
So here we go:
-- function: Save a list of currently open tabs as a session,
accessible at any future date (like IEPro);
-- option: Block opening of new tabs that are duplicates of other
existing tabs (in the same window), and use Shift to bypass this;
-- option: Open new tabs either (1) right after the current tab, or
(2) at the end of tab-line;
-- function: Order tabs by site (grouping tabs from same domain, not
automatically but on user request);
-- UI: Show page title in Chrome's titlebar (why is title-bar
completely missing?!)
-- function: Per-tab enabling/disabling of script, flash, images, and
other non-html technologies
-- option: Do not allow websites to hide my toolbars or to block/
hijack right-mouse event (context menu)
-- function: A button to go up one level (go to parent url, like
Google toolbar has a button for)
-- addon/engine: Mouse gestures (special Chrome addon? Standalone
gMote is good but has limitations)
-- engine: Easier support for user scripts / Greasemonkey (i can't
get it to work at all though...)
-- addon/engine: Support for Google Toolbar !! Come on Mr.Google, at
least SOME of the functions should be available in a Chrome version of
the Toolbar...
-- function: Highlighting search words in current page, and keep the
hilighting active on all subsequent pages in the same tab
-- UI: Movable toolbars (so i can put on a single line the bookmarn
bar and the address bar with all its buttons)
-- UI: Optional docking of links bar to left (with vertical text)
-- UI: Custom icons for bookmarks and bookmark folders (helps
distinguish similar script-bookmarks, or similar pages)
-- UI: Skins (or an optional "spartan" Classic-Windows looks, where
buttons and controls take 30% less space than the stylish XP/Vista)
-- UI: Disable the speed-dial showing on new tabs, option to open
homepage instead (even better, put a user-modifiable speed-dial). The
algorithm for automatically choosing the speed-dial pages seems HIGHLY
incoherent, as it keeps displaying thumb-pages to places i haven't
visited in weeks. Not to mention this can be a privacy issue as
well...
-- UI: Show a longer list of recently closed items (put a menu with
at least 20 entries, why only 3 ?!)
-- option: Remember more items for recently closed items (up to 100)
-- UI: Open new homepage-tab by middle-click on the homepage button
(as opposed to homepage on current tab, on left click), just like any
link opens in a new tab on middle-click
-- function: Delete individual pages and/or sites from the entire
history (across all months)
-- function/UI: Add "open selected text as link" to context menu for
text-selection
-- engine/UI: The Inspect Element or the Source window should present
listings of: all embedded pictures, all links (sorted by type, by site
or by page order)
-- engine: A portable version, readily downloadable and usable.
-- engine: Option to set _only_ the Cache folder to a different
folder on local harddisk, outside of the user profile (e.g. %sysdrive%/
Temp/myChromeCache/), in order to avoid thrashing my USB drive for
portable Chrome/Iron, but also to move the cache to a dedicated "swap"
location
-- function: Lock current tab against accidental closing (also, add a
shortkey)
-- UI: Longer line for url hint ("status bar")
-- UI: Optional status bar with various live connection info (active
SSL, downloading speed, tab count, RAM usage ....)
-- UI: Permanently show the search bar _next to_ the address bar
-- UI: Optional display of tabs on multiple rows (with a minimum tab-
width in pixels)
-- function: Boss key :-)
If you're still reading, i'm currently using workarounds to (very) few
of the above missing features:
1. for the UP button, i use this script bookmarklet
javascript:var m=location.href.match(/(.+:\/\/)([^\.]+\.)((?:[^\.\:\/]+
\.)*(?:[^\.\:\/]+)(?:\:\d+)?)(?:(\/(?:[^\/]+\/)*)(?:[^\/]+\/?))?/);void
(location.href=m[1]+(m[4]==null||m[4]==""?m[3]:m[2]+m[3]+m[4]))
2. for mouse gestures, I use gMote, but it cannot recognize 180*
changes in direction (e.g. Up-Down, L-R or R-L)
3. for new-tab with homepage, i middle-click on a homepage bookmark.
That is, when i remember i have it there on the links bar...
These are my workarounds, but even so they are not as good as
integrated features can be...
Looking forward to the stable version 2.
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