Yeah I know what you mean by loving it, but really just stop using any
of the other browsers, specially Iron, it is the same thing, and only
use IE if for some reason the page doesn't work in Chrome, believe me
after using it as the default, you will get use to it, and you will
start to think that IE should change a lot of their features, and come
up with a long list like this one for IE. But anyways here are my
answers for your long list!, and most of them are actually features
that already exist, you just have to use Chrome more, anyways, I hope
you read it all, as well as I read yours :)
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
>> I never knew there was a professional version for IE, do you know if there
>> is one for IE8?, and is it from Microsoft, or from some other thing?
So here we go:
-- function: Save a list of currently open tabs as a session,
accessible at any future date (like IEPro);
>>Well you could have it set to reopen the current tabs when it closes, or keep
>>pressing Ctrl+Shift+T, or just search your History, or even better bookmark
>>them.
-- option: Block opening of new tabs that are duplicates of other
existing tabs (in the same window), and use Shift to bypass this;
>>you know that Chromes tabs are windows, try dragging them out, you would just
>>have to close them, and not expect a program to do it.
-- option: Open new tabs either (1) right after the current tab, or
(2) at the end of tab-line;
>>Again you can move them around unlike IE, so just try moving them to the
>>right, and so on.
-- function: Order tabs by site (grouping tabs from same domain, not
automatically but on user request);
>> you can do these by grouping all the tabs in one ""window", and so on
-- UI: Show page title in Chrome's titlebar (why is title-bar
completely missing?!)
>>Tile bar belongs to each tab, but you can see on the Windows Toolbar, the
>>"title" for the current tab you have open in Chrome.
-- function: Per-tab enabling/disabling of script, flash, images,
and
other non-html technologies
>>Alright finally something nice, I would like this as well, although you could
>> just end the process of the Java Scripts, Flash and all that by pressing
>>Shift+Esc, and then end the process on the Plug-In
-- option: Do not allow websites to hide my toolbars or to block/
hijack right-mouse event (context menu)
>> There are no toolbars on Chrome, so what are you talking about?, and I am
>> guessing u mean right click, well some websites have copy right stuff, so it
>> wont allow you to right click so you can't copy something, or things like
>> that.
-- function: A button to go up one level (go to parent url, like
Google toolbar has a button for)
>> Well when Google Toolbar comes out then u can do that, or just delete the
>> rest of the address.
-- addon/engine: Mouse gestures (special Chrome addon? Standalone
gMote is good but has limitations)
>>I just never use them, I used to, but would always execute stuff when I
>>didn't want to, so I think this will remain an add on, instead of a built in
>>thing
-- engine: Easier support for user scripts / Greasemonkey (i can't
get it to work at all though...)
>>Now it works on the 2.0... version, try that
-- 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...
>>Yeah I agree with this one!
-- function: Highlighting search words in current page, and keep the
hilighting active on all subsequent pages in the same tab
>>that would be nice, but it might get a bit annoying, you can always press
>>Ctrl+F and find the words you want though
-- UI: Movable toolbars (so i can put on a single line the bookmarn
bar and the address bar with all its buttons)
>> Well you can hide the bookmarks bar, but your idea sounds nice, although it
>> would make the stuff smaller.
-- UI: Optional docking of links bar to left (with vertical text)
>> Sorry not sure what you mean by that
-- UI: Custom icons for bookmarks and bookmark folders (helps
distinguish similar script-bookmarks, or similar pages)
>>Well the icons from the bookmarks come from the pages, but the icons for the
>>folders would be nice
-- UI: Skins (or an optional "spartan" Classic-Windows looks, where
buttons and controls take 30% less space than the stylish XP/Vista)
>>Well you can download themes, and it does adjust the buttons some
-- 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...
>>You can set the new tab to be the homepage, and modifiable newtab buttons
>>will come soon, right now on version 2, you can delete the ones u want though
-- UI: Show a longer list of recently closed items (put a menu with
at least 20 entries, why only 3 ?!)
>>yeah it would be nice, but then again you can go to the history
-- option: Remember more items for recently closed items (up to 100)
>> version 2 does remember more items, I don't know how many though
-- 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
>>that sounds kind nice, i like that idea
-- function: Delete individual pages and/or sites from the entire
history (across all months)
>>well you can delete a whole days worth of history, deleting individual would
>>be nice, but if you don't want it to appear on the history, then use
>>incognito mode.
-- function/UI: Add "open selected text as link" to context menu for
text-selection
>>you can right click selected text, and click on Search Google, or drag the
>>selected link, into the tab bar, and it will go to the link you selected
-- 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)
>>Oh yeah that is something I would love to see too, I don't use it much, but
>>sure would be much nicer if it had that
-- engine: A portable version, readily downloadable and usable.
>> You can download a portable version at www.portableappz.blogspot.com, or
>> many other websites, the only thing is that they don't update automatically
-- 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
>>I would like that too, I use to have it on IE to save it on another hard
>>drive, but on the portable version from www.portableappz.blogspot.com you can
>>set it to just delete it when it closes the portable chrome.
-- function: Lock current tab against accidental closing (also, add
a
shortkey)
>>well if you accidentally close it just press Ctrl+Shift+T, it would be nice
>>though to lock it
-- UI: Longer line for url hint ("status bar")
>>yeah that would be nice too, that way you would know the exact link it is
>>loading, although the bigger the screen you have the longer it will be, for
>>some reason they decided to make it some percentage of the Chrome window, so
>>it will be shorter or longer depending on the size of the Chrome window.
-- UI: Optional status bar with various live connection info (active
SSL, downloading speed, tab count, RAM usage ....)
>>there is the Stats for nerds, just press Shift+Esc and then click on the
>>Stats for nerds on the bottom left, this should be what you are looking for.
-- UI: Permanently show the search bar _next to_ the address bar
>>I really would hate to have that, it would be like on IE, or FF, where there
>>is two places to type, one for the address, and another for searching, I
>>never used the search one, and believe me the omni bar from Chrome is so much
>>better, it can search, and go to the address you typed, just try it some
>>more, you will love it!
-- UI: Optional display of tabs on multiple rows (with a minimum
tab-
width in pixels)
>>Yeah this idea was borough up before, but just simply close some tabs, you
>>don't really need that many open, but yeah if you do, then just drag them
>>out, and put them on the new "window", I mean it would be nice, but it would
>>kind of be annoying since it would cover more of the browser space.
-- 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]))
>> I don't think I get what you mean, I would say just use the Up button.
2. for mouse gestures, I use gMote, but it cannot recognize 180*
changes in direction (e.g. Up-Down, L-R or R-L)
>> Yeah mouse gestures are just weird fancy complicated things
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...
>> try what I told you, if it doesn't work, then it will most likely be the
>> first thing of the speed dial, so you can just click on that.
These are my workarounds, but even so they are not as good as
integrated features can be...
Looking forward to the stable version 2.
>> Nice, this response took for ever, and yeah I can't wait for stable version
>> 2 either.
On Apr 26, 1:52 pm, bh77soft <[email protected]> wrote:
> @ Alexandrojv
> Been using Chrome (and Iron) for over a month now, and i really like
> it. But i'm looking for Love, if u kno what i mean :)
> And yes, i'm using IE at the same time, but i'm tired of jumping
> between browsers...
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