Why google chrome sucks today.
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I have for the most part switched from FF to chrome because of speed reasons however with chrome I am getting more and more frustrated with the builtin spell checker. It is much worse than FF. I mean unless you are very close you do not get suggestions. Very frustrating..
John
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I have for the most part switched from FF to chrome because of speed reasons however with chrome I am getting more and more frustrated with the builtin spell checker. It is much worse than FF. I mean unless you are very close you do not get suggestions. Very frustrating..
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
with the builtin spell checker
Odd innit. There is a rule about that. When complaining about spelling/grammar, the one who points out the mistake of others often makes a mistake himself.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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John M. Drescher wrote:
with the builtin spell checker
Odd innit. There is a rule about that. When complaining about spelling/grammar, the one who points out the mistake of others often makes a mistake himself.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
I admit my spelling and grammar are much worse now than 30 years ago when I got my first computer. Since then I have pretty much relied on the computer to detect and fix my mistakes.
John
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I have for the most part switched from FF to chrome because of speed reasons however with chrome I am getting more and more frustrated with the builtin spell checker. It is much worse than FF. I mean unless you are very close you do not get suggestions. Very frustrating..
John
I dunno - the more I use Chrome the more I like it. Especially now I have a "display in IE based tab" extension - now I can have debug disabled in Chrome but use it when I need to, and only install flash for IE so less buggy cr*p sitting about.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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I dunno - the more I use Chrome the more I like it. Especially now I have a "display in IE based tab" extension - now I can have debug disabled in Chrome but use it when I need to, and only install flash for IE so less buggy cr*p sitting about.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
IE. Ohh man, what a piece oh *bleep*. We have to use IE7 for SAP and other such web packages, and man it's slow. It's so slow that whenever I know I'm going to have to use it, a little tear forms in my right eye. :sigh:
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair Now reading: 'The Third Reich', by Michael Burleigh
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IE. Ohh man, what a piece oh *bleep*. We have to use IE7 for SAP and other such web packages, and man it's slow. It's so slow that whenever I know I'm going to have to use it, a little tear forms in my right eye. :sigh:
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair Now reading: 'The Third Reich', by Michael Burleigh
Yeah - my wife has a training website she has to log into for her work, and it only runs in IE. Fortunately, it also runs in Chromes "IE-based Tab" so that helps. Try it - it may work for you with SAP?
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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Yeah - my wife has a training website she has to log into for her work, and it only runs in IE. Fortunately, it also runs in Chromes "IE-based Tab" so that helps. Try it - it may work for you with SAP?
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Tried it. Our SAP opens up other windows and it just crashes and burns. :((
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair Now reading: 'The Third Reich', by Michael Burleigh
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John M. Drescher wrote:
with the builtin spell checker
Odd innit. There is a rule about that. When complaining about spelling/grammar, the one who points out the mistake of others often makes a mistake himself.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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I have for the most part switched from FF to chrome because of speed reasons however with chrome I am getting more and more frustrated with the builtin spell checker. It is much worse than FF. I mean unless you are very close you do not get suggestions. Very frustrating..
John
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I admit my spelling and grammar are much worse now than 30 years ago when I got my first computer. Since then I have pretty much relied on the computer to detect and fix my mistakes.
John
Interesting. I rely on the computer less for that sort of thing than I used to. Current spelling checkers are annoying given all the false positives (and the improperly spelled words they miss). Most of them are even too stupid to do simple things like ignore words in CAPS as acronyms. There's no standard means of sharing custom dictionaries, so you have to tell each application to ignore the same set of proper names and jargon words. I despise grammar checkers. They fail to take into account the type of document or the audience you are writing for. The largest scope they usually check against is the paragraph, and some only validate sentences. By the time you've customized the grammar checker for the current document, you could have proofread and corrected any problems yourself a dozen times over.
Software Zen:
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Interesting. I rely on the computer less for that sort of thing than I used to. Current spelling checkers are annoying given all the false positives (and the improperly spelled words they miss). Most of them are even too stupid to do simple things like ignore words in CAPS as acronyms. There's no standard means of sharing custom dictionaries, so you have to tell each application to ignore the same set of proper names and jargon words. I despise grammar checkers. They fail to take into account the type of document or the audience you are writing for. The largest scope they usually check against is the paragraph, and some only validate sentences. By the time you've customized the grammar checker for the current document, you could have proofread and corrected any problems yourself a dozen times over.
Software Zen:
delete this;One other reason for this is I have not written a paper, article or any thing substantial for a decade now. I can tell you if you do not use it you will loose it, at least that applies to me. I would definitely trust word for grammar checking over my fuzzy recollection of the grammar courses I had 25 to 30 years ago. I guess yet another reason for bad grammar / spelling is that in this same 10 years I have written over 100 thousand emails, forum postings, cvs/svn checkin comments, IMs ... In all of these I do not worry that much about correct grammar.
John
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One other reason for this is I have not written a paper, article or any thing substantial for a decade now. I can tell you if you do not use it you will loose it, at least that applies to me. I would definitely trust word for grammar checking over my fuzzy recollection of the grammar courses I had 25 to 30 years ago. I guess yet another reason for bad grammar / spelling is that in this same 10 years I have written over 100 thousand emails, forum postings, cvs/svn checkin comments, IMs ... In all of these I do not worry that much about correct grammar.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
I can tell you if you do not use it you will lose it
I see your point. In my case, there's very little chance of that. One of my responsibilities as DSJB(*) is to write all the documentation for the group. I probably write a hundred pages of documentation or more a year, between specifications, white papers, and that sort of thing. (*) Departmental Sh!t-Job Boy
Software Zen:
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I have for the most part switched from FF to chrome because of speed reasons however with chrome I am getting more and more frustrated with the builtin spell checker. It is much worse than FF. I mean unless you are very close you do not get suggestions. Very frustrating..
John
I've made Chrome my preferred browser, but I also have noticed that the spell checker seems to be a little less than perfect. Hopefully they will improve it. Overall, I prefer it to FireFox by a wide margin. I don't use any extensions in Firefox or Chrome and Chrome just works better in almost every meaningful way.
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John M. Drescher wrote:
with the builtin spell checker
Odd innit. There is a rule about that. When complaining about spelling/grammar, the one who points out the mistake of others often makes a mistake himself.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
Dalek Dave wrote:
There is a rule about that.
Skitt's law. Skitt hates it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have for the most part switched from FF to chrome because of speed reasons however with chrome I am getting more and more frustrated with the builtin spell checker. It is much worse than FF. I mean unless you are very close you do not get suggestions. Very frustrating..
John
