Topic: Google Chrome (Read 13134 times)

Brentai · « **Reply #100 on:** September 07, 2008, 08:16:01 PM »

It's a YouTube problem in particular that we've all been having, but I think moreover it's a Flash problem. Small banner ads and that crap don't have a noticeable effect, but I've seen more complicated apps - games, say - bring the speed down, and if you surf around too many sites with Flash banners you'll see it start to chug a little eventually.

I don't feel much like rereading it, but I remember McCloud's comic having a few out-of-place pages with an almost apologetic tone as they explained how plugins exist outside of the browser memory management process, and that they were reliant on the plugin creators to work with them to get it running smooth. When I read it I thought, "Man, it sounds like they're apologizing in advance for Flash not working right." Looking back on it, I think they were... apologizing in advance for Flash not working right. If they really are waiting for Adobe to fix shit, then they could sit on the Beta 'til it hatched, but Adobe's business model works such that they won't bother to do anything until Google forces their hand.

Brentai · « **Reply #101 on:** September 08, 2008, 03:04:45 PM »

Doesn't play nice with Adobe Reader either, but then again, nothing does.

sei · « **Reply #102 on:** September 08, 2008, 09:26:08 PM »

no fucking kidding

Thad · « **Reply #103 on:** September 08, 2008, 11:31:44 PM »

WaPo: Google responding -- albeit vaguely -- to privacy concerns.

Brentai · « **Reply #104 on:** September 11, 2008, 03:53:17 PM »

Warning: Poking around the back end of my own sites with Chrome has revealed that it handles the post method very, very unreliably. You're probably okay at, like, Amazon, but you might want to stick to a more tested browser if you're doing stuff like shopping on sites with less visibility.

Brentai · « **Reply #105 on:** September 23, 2008, 03:42:04 PM »

So all that bellyaching I've done about Flash in Chrome? Installing the newest Flash Player Beta doesn't seem to help (and that Wario Land stunt still doesn't render properly) BUT I realized today - with an accompanying forehead slap - that you can actually go into the browser's task manager, see exactly how much memory Flash Player is eating (typically: a damn lot), and if you don't like what you see, you can actually stop Flash Player. This is something you can't do in any other browser that I know of, which all do an admittedly much better job of hiding the problem... until the entire program suddenly crashes and locks away all that leaked memory forever.

What I'm saying here is that I've reversed my opinion that Chrome is the worst browser for Flash-enabled pages. It is, in fact, the best browser for Flash-enabled pages.

Brentai · « **Reply #106 on:** September 24, 2008, 03:08:16 PM »

Installed IE8 Beta for work today. Apparently they're all like OH SHIT GOOGLE'S COMING GOTTA MAKE OUR BROWSER WORK LIKE THEIRS over there, because they've totally outdone Chrome in one important aspect.

IE8 will immediately cause your entire system to slow down, unlike Chrome which can only do it gradually. Cool!

Royal☭ · « **Reply #107 on:** September 24, 2008, 03:19:37 PM »

To be fair, leaving Firefox on for more than an hour can bring my system to a grinding halt until I kill it with fire.

I've been pretty easy on Chrome because it's worked so spectacularly for me compared to what I'm hearing from you guys, but lately it's picked up a new quirk all it's own. I never get a slow down or any kind of large memory spike when using flash for whatever reason, but lately it straight up refuses to play Flash video. Any flash video, be it YouTube, Hulu, Gametrailers, plays about 2 seconds of animation, no sound, then just freeze indefinitely. It's annoying as fuck, and never happened until about a week or two ago for me.

Dooly · « **Reply #108 on:** September 24, 2008, 03:21:43 PM »

That's happened to me in both Firefox and Chrome. I just close and re-open the browser to get things working right again.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #109 on:** September 24, 2008, 05:18:40 PM »

Well, it works in Firefox, but even closing and re-opening Chrome doesn't seem to fix the problem. And the way Chrome is designed, I thought that shit wasn't even supposed to happen.

Kashan · « **Reply #110 on:** September 24, 2008, 05:45:41 PM »

Quote from: Constantine on September 24, 2008, 05:18:40 PM

Well, it works in Firefox, but even closing and re-opening Chrome doesn't seem to fix the problem. And the way Chrome is designed, I thought that shit wasn't even supposed to happen.

I have this problem in all browsers from time to time. But in chrome I can actually fix it by killing flash in the task manager and reloading the page. One thing firefox does right that I haven't been able to fix on chrome is playing gifs without slowdows, but this happens on IE as well and is apparently a problem with vista.

sei · « **Reply #111 on:** September 25, 2008, 10:46:56 AM »

I'm in Constantine's boat. Flash video works fine in other browsers, but not in Chrome, regardless of restarting.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #112 on:** September 25, 2008, 11:53:58 AM »

I basically never have problems with either Firefox or Chrome. However, if I am running both simultaneously, they both frequently go unresponsive for several seconds.

Brentai · « **Reply #113 on:** September 25, 2008, 04:16:18 PM »

Adding -disable-plugins to the command line turns off Flash*, and it won't bug you about it ever again. You'll need to switch to another browser to watch YouTube or whatever, but since support for that sucked balls anyway it's probably for the best. Otherwise you probably won't miss it.

* And any other plugins I suppose, if you happen to have any.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #114 on:** September 27, 2008, 08:19:52 PM »

Quote from: Bongo Bill on September 25, 2008, 11:53:58 AM

I basically never have problems with either Firefox or Chrome. However, if I am running both simultaneously, they both frequently go unresponsive for several seconds.

Actually, this isn't happening any more. Neat!

Arc · « **Reply #115 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:39:18 AM »

Quote from: MadMAxJr on September 30, 2008, 07:14:40 AM

Lifehacker

Enable Chrome's Best Features In Firefox

Zaratustra · « **Reply #116 on:** September 30, 2008, 11:46:02 AM »

RRRGH STOP FORGETTING MY LOGINS AND PREFERENCES STUPID BROWSER
I DON'T WANT TO USE GOOGLE SEARCH IN PORTUGUESE BECAUSE THEN IT ONLY GIVES ME LOCAL NEWS AND SHOVES A BUNCH OF PORTUGUESE CRAPPY SITES IN FRONT OF THE SEARCHES

GOD

Thad · « **Reply #117 on:** December 11, 2008, 02:23:16 PM »

Out of beta.

Superface · « **Reply #118 on:** December 11, 2008, 03:44:50 PM »

Rock the fuck on.

Kashan, I'm seeing that too; for some reason Chrome is the only browser I have (out of it, Firefox, Safari, IE7, & Opera 9.6) that has a huge problem rendering animated gifs. And, the overall filesize of the gif doesn't seem to matter too much, mine stutters on some 300k ones, and I'm rocking 2gb of ram.

Other than that, I find myself using Chrome a lot because I open it first, and only switch to another browser when I run into something I can't do. So far that list includes my bank's shitty e-banking page, and that's about it..

My brother-in-law had some issues running weird Facebook games and things, which are surely javascript-laden, but I'm not seeing that anymore. Anyone else see anything weird in Facebook with Chrome?

Also, once I took the time to mess with it, I LOVE the new Application Shortcuts. Go to gmail.com, click "Create application shortcut" in the page menu, pick whether you want your new shortcut in quicklaunch, the desktop or the Start menu (or any combination), and it launches. Only, the app's Chrome window has the application's icon, the window title is the application ("Gmail", "Google Calendar", etc), and there is NO browser UI to speak of; it looks just like an honest-to-goodness desktop app, except there's a bunch of links rather than menu bars. Seems to work on most every Google app-thing I've tried; does it work anywhere else for anyone, like Yahoo! Mail or any other site that doesn't need Back?

Dooly · « **Reply #119 on:** January 29, 2009, 12:00:17 AM »

I've noticed that the links for opening messages in Hotmail are broken in Chrome. I'd call this passive-aggressive hating on Microsoft's part, and also a sign that, as I'm sure many of you will agree, Hotmail is a flat-out inferior email service.

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