Dear firefox...
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I am a happy Chrome user. At home. My employer is stuck at Firefox. 10.3. X|
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
Get a portable version of chrome and copy to your desktop. (or leave on usb stick) If no usb allowed, send via email. Works for me on totally locked down public computers. I just open the usb with linux when I get home to make sure it didn't bring a virus home with me.
Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut
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harold aptroot wrote:
One case that annoys me is that I often want to google an url before deciding to navigate to it, how can you do that on Chrome? Obviously you can go to google.com and do it there, but that's a bit of a detour.
Type a question mark before the url (or hit Ctrl+k) and it should search for it.
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Because sending everything you type to Google when you want a Google search is a UX optimization; sending every URL you type to Google as you type it is a privacy violation. Having to remember to type a prefix before every search so that it goes to Google for auto suggest while keeping URL autocomplete local is a UX degradation.
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Sending what you type as you type it, and URLs you navigate to, to Google is an option in Chrome; if you don't like it, turn it off (I have). It's still a much neater UI to have 'type stuff here and I'll work it out', as long as it gets it right 99% of the time, which it does (because URLs are pretty each to recognise).
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Dan Neely wrote:
is a privacy violation
Unless you agree to. Actually, I agree to, because it makes my life simpler.
Dan Neely wrote:
Having to remember to type a prefix before every search so that it goes to Google for auto suggest while keeping URL autocomplete local
* cough * What ? :doh:
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
Rage wrote:
Dan Neely wrote:
Having to remember to type a prefix before every search so that it goes to Google for auto suggest while keeping URL autocomplete local
* cough * What ?
That was to head off the person who would have replied with "You can configure your browser to only send text to Google for search auto complete if you prefix your query in the unified address/search box with 'g ' (and 'a ' for amazon, etc)" because I don't consider it an acceptable option on anything with a usably large screen.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Sending what you type as you type it, and URLs you navigate to, to Google is an option in Chrome; if you don't like it, turn it off (I have). It's still a much neater UI to have 'type stuff here and I'll work it out', as long as it gets it right 99% of the time, which it does (because URLs are pretty each to recognise).
Did you actually read what I wrote? I want Google auto complete when I'm typing a search query. I don't want every URL I'm typing sent to Google.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Get a portable version of chrome and copy to your desktop. (or leave on usb stick) If no usb allowed, send via email. Works for me on totally locked down public computers. I just open the usb with linux when I get home to make sure it didn't bring a virus home with me.
Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut
I know I can do that, but they have burned people for less than that here, so I let it be the way the policy inquisition wants.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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... why do you insist in having a navigation bar AND a search bar :sigh: ? This is so '2000ish ( And I am usually not of the kind who would complain that there are too many bars, but ...). Furthermore, a navigation bar that throws you a popup error window ! This is even '1990ish.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
I like the separate search box. I also like being able to customize the toolbar, making the buttons small and having my favorites on the left, though I did have to use an add-on to strip the bookmark menu of a lot of ugly. (Of my kids, two use IE, one uses Chrome and one uses Firefox. My youngest uses IE and her bookmarks are a horror--just a huge long list, but she finds things so I suppose it works for her. My second youngest, who uses Firefox, has no bookmarks; he remembers them all [yet manages for forget to do his homework.])
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... why do you insist in having a navigation bar AND a search bar :sigh: ? This is so '2000ish ( And I am usually not of the kind who would complain that there are too many bars, but ...). Furthermore, a navigation bar that throws you a popup error window ! This is even '1990ish.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
I type my urls.
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One case that annoys me is that I often want to google an url before deciding to navigate to it, how can you do that on Chrome? Obviously you can go to google.com and do it there, but that's a bit of a detour.
harold aptroot wrote:
I often want to google an url before deciding to navigate to it
Are you sure that won't break the internet?
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harold aptroot wrote:
I often want to google an url before deciding to navigate to it
Are you sure that won't break the internet?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Whew, that's a relief! ;P
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I know I can do that, but they have burned people for less than that here, so I let it be the way the policy inquisition wants.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
And Chrome Frame? You know... Chrome, with the IE aspect... :) http://www.google.com/chromeframe?prefersystemlevel=true[^]
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You can also set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and use bang syntax!
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... why do you insist in having a navigation bar AND a search bar :sigh: ? This is so '2000ish ( And I am usually not of the kind who would complain that there are too many bars, but ...). Furthermore, a navigation bar that throws you a popup error window ! This is even '1990ish.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
Rage wrote:
This is so '2000ish
It is! But, far more important on my "Firefox Please Fix THIS" list is the memory leak FF has been a few versions since: Can't leave the browser open even if idling for a full night and not find it next day all over the available RAM... Windows, Linux, Mac OSX - it's all the same :mad: Wait... still have one in the chamber for Chrome: Chrome is good, behaves a little better but Google's obsession on keeping deep config options out of the user's reach annoys me to no end; this far into whatever Chrome version is at, still needing the "Tabs To Front" extension is '2000ish' as well, why can such simple functionality not be incorporated into the stock Chrome distribution? Also, Chrome's insistence on opening up a download bar at the bottom and keeping it there even as the download has completed is cumbersome... oh but there is an extension fix for that too. Meh. Off from the braced up soap box. Yes I'm that heavy. -- RP
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One case that annoys me is that I often want to google an url before deciding to navigate to it, how can you do that on Chrome? Obviously you can go to google.com and do it there, but that's a bit of a detour.
Another shortcut you can press for the query mode is Ctrl + E, which I accidentally press when trying to close a tab :)
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You can also set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and use bang syntax!
DuckDuckGo is my default :) banging away all the time ;)
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... why do you insist in having a navigation bar AND a search bar :sigh: ? This is so '2000ish ( And I am usually not of the kind who would complain that there are too many bars, but ...). Furthermore, a navigation bar that throws you a popup error window ! This is even '1990ish.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
It would be great if Firefox would learn how to recognize word boundaries. When I make a typo in the middle of a word, backspace, and retype it correctly, Firefox flags just the retyped part as a spelling "error". The red underline makes me think it was a REAL spelling error, and distracts me momentarily. Cumulatively, over time, this slows me down, and is a waste of my time. With all the advances in artificial intelligence, recognizing word boundaries for spelling checks should be a solvable problem!
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One case that annoys me is that I often want to google an url before deciding to navigate to it, how can you do that on Chrome? Obviously you can go to google.com and do it there, but that's a bit of a detour.
In addition to the previous tips, I'll add my method of just typing a space before the URL. And of course, Chrome supports the same keyword-for-bookmarked-search-URL functionality as Firefox (right-click the address bar and "Edit search engines". One of the options in the dialog is to add a keyword)
