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A web browser compiled from the released source of //Google Chrome.

It's simplicity is overdone to the point of losing functionality. Some of its preferences are so wrong that I can't use it, and because it's inflexible I can't fix their mistakes.

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• Chromium extensions

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• I switched to Pale Moon.

• 2011-06-11 - (version not recorded), on (distribution not recorded)

Issues ∞

There is something very VERY wrong with Google's design choices. They're awkward and user-unfriendly. Google is hell-bent on making Chrome as fast as possible, even to the point of crippling functionality, but many UI issues shouldn't be excluded.

I wouldn't make as big a deal out of the issues, but Google doesn't even fix the most significant issues. This browser feels beta through and through.

Tested 2013-06-15, Version 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 13.04 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu3)

• alt-enter doesn't work, but then again F2 does.
• Wide YouTube videos (playlist) have a black box at the top-right.
• Has no hotkeys on any right-click menus. Seriously guys?

• YouTube videos won't work half the time. I can't load a page, activate the flash plugin then skip ahead. Sometimes it won't load at all in the first place, some times it'll hang when I try to skip ahead. Sigh.

Hierarchical Tabs ∞

• Issue 2319 [ 1 ]

Cannot page-up/page-down in an edit field without moving the whole page ∞

I guess I'm the first person to use an edit box..

Control-W with one tab open closes the browser ∞

Google refuses to have a dialogue prompting the user.

Multiple users created extensions to solve this issue.

• Keep last two tabs

Closing a browser window does not prompt the user ∞

Google refuses to have a dialogue prompting the user.

A user had to solve this issue:

• window close protector

Closing while downloads are in progress does not prompt the user ∞

How fucking insane is that?

Side tabs ∞

I found two extensions which attempt to solve this problem. This one is quite good:

• Sideways tree style tabs also implements hierarchical tabs.

This is another fundamental disconnect at Google.

Tabs shrink until they become unusable, and since everyone has a wide screen there is plenty of room for a vertical list.

• issue 2319

Image alt titles don't appear on mouseover ∞

A user had to solve this issue.

• popup image alt attribute

Cannot middle-click the scroll bar to hop ∞

Left-clicking just jumps the document by one page. It's horribly slow.

In fact, if I'm in an edit box, and I middle click the scroll bar, it pastes the middle-click clipboard into the edit box. Sigh.

This was implemented in Chrome 53.0.2785.143 m (64-bit) or earlier.

Cannot remove the close button on tabs ∞

It's a waste of space. I middle-click or control-w to close tabs.

• issue 50913

Bookmarks suck ∞

I once crashed the bookmark organizer just by making a folder and trying to move it.

No hotkeys in the duplicate bookmark dialogue ∞

When adding a duplicate bookmark, cannot alt-r to remove the existing one(s).

I actually miss this a lot..

Adding a bookmark places it in the wrong folder ∞

It's amazingly annoying that when adding a bookmark it will drop it into some random place.

I think it's choosing the location you happened to have selected when last using the bookmark organizer.

It's fucking annoying as hell to lose bookmarks like this. Imagine having n-1 bookmarks and n-1 folders and going on a bookmarking spree n-1 days ago. One day when looking through bookmarks you'll see a pile of bookmarks that don't belong in a folder.. which should have been added to your universal inbox -- that being the root of the bookmarks tree.

Side bookmarks [unsolved] ∞

Google removed the so-called "buggy" code for vertical sidebar. Apparently they don't realise that horizontal space is cheap now that everyone has a wide screen.

The "organize bookmarks" feature is fair, but it's on a separate tab so it's obnoxious to use. It also doesn't display all bookmarks properly, instead hiding bookmarks until the user enters into a folder. A failure of functionality.

This is still unsolved. The "side tabs" issue is related, and the author of Sideways tree style tabs has bookmark functionality planned.

No bookmark separators ∞

Workaround: Chromium bookmark separators

Middle-click pastes bookmarks ∞

Apparently they're listening to the fucktarded Linux middle-click clipboard, and both pasting a bookmark and opening the current bookmark in a tab. Sigh.

• issue 44811

Adjusting hotkeys ∞

TODO - I have some addons to check out. I use control-b to view bookmarks.. hey Google, how fucking strange is that?

Edit, search and tab changing bug ∞

1. With two tabs.

   1. An edit box.
   2. Any content.

2. View tab 1, with the edit box.

   1. Control-f and type anything arbitrary.
   2. Click in the edit box to place your cursor there.
3. Control-tab to the second tab.

4. Control-tab back to the first tab.

The cursor is no longer in the edit box, but is instead in the search field.

I haven't bothered to check to see if this has been reported.

Alt-F4, re-launch, shows just one blank tab ∞

It's as though "Settings > On start-up > Continue where I left off." is bugged.

Control-Shift-T will create a new popup with restored windows.

• issue 110324

Extensions I use ∞

TODO

Customization ∞

TODO

• settings
• advanced settings
• disable plugins

• hidden settings

Flashblock-like setting ∞

chrome://settings/content

• Plug-ins

  • [x] Block all

Advanced ∞

TODO

• Sandbox the entire fucking thing.

Advantages over Firefox ∞

Some notes on things I noticed while attempting to mimic my habits on Firefox.

• Chromium is faster

  • It could just be my mass of addons on Firefox though. More testing needs to be done.
• I can F2 to edit the name of a bookmark. Revolutionary!
• I don't need to reboot when adding/removing extensions.

• I can control tab even after clicking on a flash video.

  • However, I can't control-w or control-t or the like..

2011-06-11 - (version not recorded) ∞

• Doesn't properly offer to remember a password when the page redirects after login. Like when LOGGING INTO GOOGLE. Fucking idiots.

• I have to reach for the mouse to get to the search field. Fuck that. (fixed 2013-06-15 or earlier)

  • This has since been fixed.

• Bookmark Manager

  • Has no hotkeys on the right-click menus.
  • Alt-Enter doesn't work.
  • I have to reach for the mouse to get to the search field. Fuck that.
  • I have to jump through hoops to implement a separator: Make my own HTML file and custom Favicon. See Chromium bookmark separators.

Alternatives ∞

Other browsers are built with some of Chrome's open source components:

• /tag/software-based-on-chrome

• Web browsers:

  • live - loved+zombie

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