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2008/11/19: 15818: Google Chrome
Welcome to OttoBlog#15818.
There are a lot of things I like about Google's new Web Browser "Chrome".
But there are a surprising number of things that bugged me about it. I'll start with those today:
- There is no way to disable javascript (and manage which sites this doesn't apply to). One can change the launch shortcut to "chrome.exe -disable-javascript" to disable it for all sites. Why isn't there a checkbox under options?
- There is no way to disable Java (and manage which sites this doesn't apply to)? One can change the launch shortcut to "chrome.exe -disable-java" to disable it for all sites. Why isn't there a checkbox under options?
- There is no way to block pop-up windows (and manage which sites this doesn't apply to)? One can change the launch shortcut to "chrome.exe -disable-popup-blocking" to block it for all sites. Why isn't there a checkbox under options?
- There is no way to disable auto-loading images (and manage which sites this doesn't apply to)? One can change the launch shortcut to "chrome.exe -disable-images" to disable it for all sites. Why isn't there a checkbox under options?
- There is no way to disable flash (and manage which sites this doesn't apply to)? One can change the launch shortcut to "chrome.exe -disable-plugins" might work. Why isn't there a checkbox under options?
- For secure websites (gMail, gDocs, gCal) the "https" has a red slash through it on the URL bar. There is no obvious explanation for this, but I'd assume it means there is a mix of secure and unsecure items on the page.
- Modifying the proxy settings seems to change something globally on the PC, as opposed to FireFox and MSIE which only make changes internal to that browser.
- There's a "view frame source", but no "view page source" (when a page is nothing but tiled frames that I want to see the top-level source of, like I can in MSIE & FF)
- In gMail's gTalk popout, it doesn't auto-resize the text-enter box when the window is maximized (which works fine in FF & MSIE). This is annoying, as that's usually the reason I maximize the window.
- "incognito windows" (Ctrl-Shift-M) are in a new window, when I'd prefer they were just in a new tab. This should be a setting under "options".
- You can drag a tab to be its own window, but I don't see a way to do the opposite (put a tab that's in its own window back with the other tabs). They claim you can, but it doesn't do it on my Vist Home Premium desktop PC.
- Any way to edit the URL/search history? Not that I can see.
- There is no way to tell it whether to automatically go to the new tab if you Ctrl-Click on a link. Luckily, it behaves how I want, by not going to it.
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