I don’t mean to disagree with your or disparage your post, but I find it hilarious that “10 seconds” seems like “forever” to so many of us! (myself included.) If this is our biggest problem, life is indeed good!
Wish I knew how you accomplished that.
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Download and unzip into the Fonts directory.
I was talking about weird obscure languages that probably aren’t covered by Windows language packs, like Classical Mongolian or Cherokee.
My Chrome actually displays the Cherokee on this page (and even here) just fine, and I’m 98% sure I never went out of my way to install a Cherokee language pack or anything. Upgrade to Windows 7 maybe? Sorry, that’s all I got, and I hate to give that answer.
ETA: It displays Mongolian Script correctly too.
Inspired by this thread, I actually downloaded and installed Chrome on my PC. I’d tried it a couple of years ago on my old machine (Win XP), but wound up going with Firefox full-time. Chrome just didn’t seem as . . . polished . . . somehow.
But now, with a fairly new computer (Win 7 64-bit OS) and after all the upgrades, I find it pretty much comparable to Firefox. It has a weird sort of aesthetic in that it’s mostly stripped-down in appearance, but it does do some things better than Firefox. Web apps, for instance – yes, some are just big-button bookmarks, but for those developers who have put some work into it (like the New York Times), the implementation is smooth, and better than simply going to the web site. I don’t use many extensions, but I’ve found the look and feel of the few I have to be slightly more polished in Chrome.
The one annoyance I have with Chrome (and it’s minor, but one of those things that bugs me) is there’s no way to turn off link underlining, and the few extensions in the web store that fix this also seem to affect other text effects (you can turn off underlines easily in Firefox, and I prefer web pages to display without them).
Too late to edit (again), but just wanted to note Chrome also does not display open tabs in “Aero-peek” in Win 7. If you have more than one window open, you will see the multiples when you click or hover on the task bar icon, but tabs within a window will not display; you can only go to the active tab.
I switched to Chrome a few years ago. It took a little getting used to, but now I wouldn’t switch back. Only Opera is comparable, and Chrome has – like all other browsers – integrated Opera’s innovations.
That’s only a partial solution. Incognito mode doesn’t store any history at all (unless I’m missing a setting somewhere). What I want is for the browser to take cookies and store history like normal, and then clear everything out once I close it. That way I have a completely normal browsing experience without having to manually clear the history. The closest I’ve found so far is an addon that clears your history on start up, but it hasn’t been supported for years.
I’d be willing to bet that this is your problem. I’m far from an expert, of course.
I read one of James Martin’s books circa 1970; IIRC he stated that interactive computer systems should avoid (or take special measures for) delays of more than 1.5 seconds.
When reading a novel with something like
I generally assume Steve remained silent for about ten seconds. :dubious:
For whatever it’s worth, it also displays correctly on the very lightweight chrome app for iPad.
You know how you minimize several of the documents you are working on in a word processor? Same thing. You keep the window open. Some tabs are minimized, some aren’t.
I use tabs a lot. I’ll Google something and quickly middle click to open 10 or more tabs. I quickly run thru them. Closing the ones that aren’t useful, minimizing the ones I want to come back to. Same thing with the Dope. If there’s a thread I might want to reply to, I’ll minimize it and come back later. (This gives some time to think whether replying is a good idea or not, for example.)
I have 4 – oops, make that 6 tabs over two windows, minimized now that I’ve kept around for a couple weeks. I only check in every now and then and refresh them. The rest of the time they are “in the background” and I don’t have to think about them.
If you’ve never used tabs like this, you have no idea what you’re missing. There’s a lot of people who “don’t get it” since they’ve never really tried it. It radically changes the way you use a browser.
Unfortunately, Chrome and FF developers don’t get it.
For OSX and iOS, I still love Safari. For Windows Chrome is by far the best.
For Android, I think Dolphin is significantly better than Chrome. I highly encourage people to check it out. I wish they made it for Windows and OSX.
I’ve got a lot to think about. I really appreciated all the responses.
Sounds like TooManyTabs to me.
That is the best thing ever. Thank you.
Isn’t it a memory sink to leave that much stuff going in the background all the time?
I always use chrome! It is my favorite browser hands down. But seriously, if you don’t like it, just uninstall it. But I am pretty sure you will like it. It’s fast and sleek. They also have a good system with bookmarks.
This much is true, but personally I have 12 GB of DDR3 RAM so I can have 20-30 tabs open on Chrome and only barely break 50% physical memory usage (and that’s with iTunes, Java applications, Steam, various editing programs etc open as well).
Just do control H. Any one who says Chrome isn’t luxurious doesn’t know what they are talking about, or hasn’t taken the time to fully adapt to it.. It is a pretty damn luxurious browser. It is sleek, and you get all these cool features such as auto-fill, and great multitasking.
Don’t waste your time; download it.
Calm down, AU, it’s just a browser, not your BFF, much as I like Chrome too. And Ctrl+H doesn’t really help him. I’m sure he knows how to clear his browser history, the point is that some browsers have an option to auto-clear history without thinking about it on browser close – Chrome doesn’t have that.
Also, Rubixcube, I haven’t used it in a long time, but try Rockmelt. It’s based on a Chrome shell but comes with some features like an integrated RSS manager and access to social networking site apps built in.