Why I never use Google Chrome dspite it being teh fastest

[Berryracer]

1) I throw up when I look at its interface

2) Most important for me, I use copy/paste a lot on my forums and need everything in a post I copy to be pasted, like the links, pics, formatting, etc.

Chrome has no WYSIWYG editor so it only pastes plain text.

The extension for WYSIWG for Chrome has been discontinued and you can no longer install it. Thus forcing me to use Firefox even if its faster

3) its bookmarks manager is crap IMHO

4) on my 1920x1080 resolution, I use a scaling of 25% to make [stuff] look big enough, that is fine on all browsers and programs BUT on chrome, all icons in the bookmarks bar, options menu, disregard this scaling and they look tiny so I have to use a magnifier to see them

5) With every chrome update, my fav. download manager Internet Download Manager ceases to work until they release an update. With Pale Moon/Firefox, it always works

6) Its IE TAB extension is not as good as the Firefox one, when opening a link, it HAS to open it in a new Window rather in a new tab and there is no option to change that

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[MadScientist]

Chrome has been berry berry good to me. :biggrin:

 

[Zxian]

1) I throw up when I look at its interface

That's a matter of taste. I like how minimal it is.

2) Most important for me, I use copy/paste a lot on my forums and need everything in a post I copy to be pasted, like the links, pics, formatting, etc.

Chrome has no WYSIWYG editor so it only pastes plain text.

The extension for WYSIWG for Chrome has been discontinued and you can no longer install it. Thus forcing me to use Firefox even if its faster

That's your issue with the extension developer - not Chrome itself. Place blame where blame is due.

3) its bookmarks manager is crap IMHO

Agreed. This definitely needs work.

4) on my 1920x1080 resolution, I use a scaling of 25% to make shit look big enough, that is fine on all browsers and programs BUT on chrome, all icons in the bookmarks bar, options menu, disregard this scaling and they look tiny so I have to use a magnifier to see them

Chrome's scaling is somewhat broken. However, you can search for your bookmarks in the omnibox with the following extension:
Chrome Web Store - Bookmark search

Other than looking for bookmarks, I don't really have a need to open the Chrome menu unless something's gone wrong.

5) With every chrome update, my fav. download manager Internet Download Manager ceases to work until they release an update. With Pale Moon/Firefox, it always works

Again, this is an issue with your extension developer. If they're writing extensions that break every time Chrome updates, they're writing poor code.

6) Its IE TAB extension is not as good as the Firefox one, when opening a link, it HAS to open it in a new Window rather in a new tab and there is no option to change that

I just tested the following two extensions. Both of them opened the present URL in the same tab (not even a new tab).
Chrome Web Store - IE Tab
Chrome Web Store - IE Tab Multi (Enhance)

 

[Berryracer]

Chrome not supportong WYSIWYG in the first place is the issue not the extension not being updated bro.

in a modern world of browsers, how can it miss such a vital feature

 

[Morbus]

Not that WYSIWYG BS again...

Anyway, Chrome is not the fastest. It's one of the faster browsers. The real speed enhancements are gained when you customize a browser so you can do your tasks faster, and nothing beats Firefox on that from, even though it has been raped for 5 years by Mozilla, but it's still miles ahead of Chrome in every department.

Chrome never really came out of beta, in my book. It's pathetic.

 

[Berryracer]

Chrome never really came out of beta, in my book. It's pathetic.

QFT :ninja:

 

[Zxian]

Anyway, Chrome is not the fastest. It's one of the faster browsers. The real speed enhancements are gained when you customize a browser so you can do your tasks faster, and nothing beats Firefox on that from, even though it has been raped for 5 years by Mozilla, but it's still miles ahead of Chrome in every department.

What about out-of-the-box sync? Every Chrome installation of mine becomes nearly exactly like the others within about 15 seconds of logging in with my Google account. Bookmarks, extensions, and apps are automatically synced.

Chrome never really came out of beta, in my book. It's pathetic.

How long has Firefox had memory leaks? With a single process program, that's a pretty serious flaw that never seems to have got much attention.

 

[lxskllr]

How long has Firefox had memory leaks? With a single process program, that's a pretty serious flaw that never seems to have got much attention.

It hasn't had memory leaks in a long time, and I'm not convinced it ever did. I never had any, and some of the confirmed leaks I read about were caused by addons. You can't blame Firefox for third party code.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Chrome not supportong WYSIWYG in the first place is the issue not the extension not being updated bro.

in a modern world of browsers, how can it miss such a vital feature

...huh? I have embedded WYSIWYG editors in my websites. They work fine. What is your issue?

 

[MongGrel]

I still won't use it myself.

Just me I guess.

 

[Berryracer]

...huh? I have embedded WYSIWYG editors in my websites. They work fine. What is your issue?

My issue?

really?

try this

copy paste the below post / links and paste them in a new post in Chrome and noticed how all the formatting, colors, etc, links, pics, are gone, how is this so hard to see? :whiste:

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Test post:

[FONT=&amp]If you want Pale Moon to automatically get the latest content when loading webpages so that you always get the latest page when you access a site (very helpful in Message Boards to ensure you are viewing the latest threads and posts), do this: [/FONT]

1) Download and install the Pale Moon Commander

2) Restart your browser when prompted to do so

3) Go to Pale Moon > Add-Ons > Pale Moon Commander (click on Options)

4) Go to the Performance Tab > Cache

5) Next to "Compared cached pages to pages on the network" (down at the bottom) set it to ALWAYS or for faster page loading, set it to ONCE PER SESSION

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For someone like me who runs a forum and keeps making/updating guides, diff. laptop clean install guides and need to copy/paste similar stuff into other threads, this is a MUST. Imagine if each time I copied a post with formatting, links, pics, I had to manually do everything up??

Hope you see that Chrome is an ancient browser by today's standards, looks fugly, invades your privacy

oh and about syncing profiles, ever heard of MozBackup, the moment I install Firefox it takes a second to have everything back

and for Pale Moon (which is the browser I use), there is the Pale Moon Backup tool so syncing the settings/ bookmarks, etc, is nothing to talk about

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I've become more conscientious of privacy lately and have found myself avoiding Chrome even though I wouldn't say I'm particularly worried about using it, especially with extensions.

I have toyed around with alternative builds of Chromium/webkit that I would feel better about using, Comodo Dragon was particularly enjoyable, and Midori was also interesting (very light)

But ultimately I've found myself landing with PaleMoon x64 using Disconnect+Adblock+NoScript. And while Chrome/Chromium has seen support for many such extensions (some of which I have found the Chrome version to be a bit better), NoScript is still a major "selling" point for me with FireFox/PaleMoon.

 

[SolMiester]

What about out-of-the-box sync? Every Chrome installation of mine becomes nearly exactly like the others within about 15 seconds of logging in with my Google account. Bookmarks, extensions, and apps are automatically synced.


How long has Firefox had memory leaks? With a single process program, that's a pretty serious flaw that never seems to have got much attention.

People are still using google accounts?:'(

 

[RampantAndroid]

My issue?

really?

try this

I just copied it and pasted it into a CKEditor instance open in another tab of Chrome. It worked fine. Picture, formatting and all.

http://ckeditor.com/demo

 

[bbhaag]

WOW.....this thread is so sad.

 

[pyonir]

Another Chrome thread?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2333027
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2350011
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2309358

If it's so bad, stop using it (and then complaining about it).

 

[Berryracer]

I just copied it and pasted it into a CKEditor instance open in another tab of Chrome. It worked fine. Picture, formatting and all.

http://ckeditor.com/demo

I said. copy paste what i posted, in another post HERE not in some CK Editor, and watch all the formatting disappear

 

[Morbus]

What about out-of-the-box sync? Every Chrome installation of mine becomes nearly exactly like the others within about 15 seconds of logging in with my Google account. Bookmarks, extensions, and apps are automatically synced.

Firefox Sync isn't as stable as Chrome's on very old profiles, but it's just as good as Chrome's for every other use case.

Also, there's no way I'm gonna sync my profile if it's not encrypted client-side, it's just a huge security flaw from Chrome's side. Firefox encrypts your data client-side, so it's almost 100% safe.

How long has Firefox had memory leaks?

Firefox hasn't had memory leaks for years. There was a nasty one in Fx4.0, but 5.0 fixed it.

At any rate, memory leaks or not, Firefox has always been considerably less RAM hungry than Chrome, with it's draconian multi-process architecture.

With a single process program, that's a pretty serious flaw that never seems to have got much attention.

Because it's not a flaw, it's actually a very strong reason to use Firefox and not Chrome: it allows for ^*real* extensions, and a much lower RAM usage. Of course it's not so good for weaker machines, and if a tab hangs, the whole browser hangs, but that's basically a non-issue if you have a clean and healthy profile and computer. I'm a very heavy user (dozens of tabs, dozens of extensions) and my Firefox will never hang more than once or twice a week, a couple of seconds at a time, at MOST. And it never crashes. NEVER.

I understand one use-case doesn't mean everyone will have the same experience, but that's how it is for me.

What is your issue?

Lol, that's really the question here: what's HIS issue?

He keeps blabbing on about how Chrome doesn't have a WYSIWYG editor, and I've told him already: it's not the browser, it's the website. If the website is buggy, it won't run properly on some browsers. Browsers DO NOT have wysiwyg editors, they simply don't. Websites do, however.

Also, for whatever reason, I don't see a wysiwyg editor here either, running Firefox...

 

[Berryracer]

He keeps blabbing on about how Chrome doesn't have a WYSIWYG editor, and I've told him already: it's not the browser, it's the website. If the website is buggy, it won't run properly on some browsers. Browsers DO NOT have wysiwyg editors, they simply don't. Websites do, however.

Also, for whatever reason, I don't see a wysiwyg editor here either, running Firefox...

are you blind or cannot read?

I said, copy paste my above example post, and paste it, while you're in Chrome, and notice how it will only paste it as plain text missing out all the hyperlinks, formatting etc.

how is it the site's fault? it's on any vBulletin forum

BUT, if you copy this example post in Pale Moon or Firefox, then post it in a new post, it will copy everything.

if you both cannot understand plain simple english, then I am sorry for you as you will never be able to understand the issue....EVER

 

[Morbus]

I can guarantee you Google Chrome works perfectly with formatted text on Wordpress, which is what I work with. It DOES NOT strip the formatting, so, as I said, it's a bug with the website, not Chrome.

Granted, it's a bug that's probably the result of the website's developers not having tested with Chrome well enough, but that's web development for you.

The issue here is you can't understand a very, VERY simple sentence:
It is not Chrome's fault, it's the website's.

 

[coffeejunkee]

Any reason besides 'being teh fastest' why you would want to use it?

I've never really understood this 'my browser is fastest, no mine is' contest. Isn't the network a giant bottleneck compared to browser speed?

 

[Berryracer]

I can guarantee you Google Chrome works perfectly with formatted text on Wordpress, which is what I work with. It DOES NOT strip the formatting, so, as I said, it's a bug with the website, not Chrome.

Granted, it's a bug that's probably the result of the website's developers not having tested with Chrome well enough, but that's web development for you.

The issue here is you can't understand a very, VERY simple sentence:
It is not Chrome's fault, it's the website's.

right, so why does the copy/pase work on Firefox and Pale Moon preserving the formatting and it doesn't on Chrome? if you say it's the website's fault? :whiste:

 

[xantub]

For a developer, Firefox is better. For a user, Chrome is better.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Yes, in most cases network speed slows down browsing more than the browser itself. Sometimes, rendering could be faster on one vs. the other but now FF and others are close enough that it's getting difficult to notice the difference on a lot of sites.

Any reason besides 'being teh fastest' why you would want to use it?

I've never really understood this 'my browser is fastest, no mine is' contest. Isn't the network a giant bottleneck compared to browser speed?

 

[RampantAndroid]

right, so why does the copy/pase work on Firefox and Pale Moon preserving the formatting and it doesn't on Chrome? if you say it's the website's fault? :whiste:

Because I proved it was the website....it's something to do with the settings on AT that detect the browser. I bet if you set your browser to report it was firefox instead of chrome, it'd work.

Edit, well looky here. I made my Chrome user agent string report Firefox 15 (go get the Chrome UA Spoofer extension):


Test post:

[FONT=&amp]If you want Pale Moon to automatically get the latest content when loading webpages so that you always get the latest page when you access a site (very helpful in Message Boards to ensure you are viewing the latest threads and posts), do this: [/FONT]

1) Download and install the Pale Moon Commander

2) Restart your browser when prompted to do so

3) Go to Pale Moon > Add-Ons > Pale Moon Commander (click on Options)

4) Go to the Performance Tab > Cache

5) Next to "Compared cached pages to pages on the network" (down at the bottom) set it to ALWAYS or for faster page loading, set it to ONCE PER SESSION

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I said. copy paste what i posted, in another post HERE not in some CK Editor, and watch all the formatting disappear

No, you said to paste it in a new post. Which I did, using an independent source. I verified that it worked; I didn't attempt it on AT and hit the same bug you did.