Out of the Blue

[Oct 13, 2011, 10:20 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Fed up with Chrome almost always starting up with a complaint that it hadn't been shut down properly, I did a little Googling to see if the source of this problem could be identified. I found threads on this dating back years, with the most tried and true solution being to uninstall the browser, delete all its orphaned subdirectories, and start from scratch. Not having the time or inclination to subject myself to all that, I tried a secondary solution that involved deleting some .tmp files Chrome seems to have generated somewhere along the way. This seems to have mostly cured things, though I had a single incident since trying it. Hopefully this will stick, as it was a bit of a pain.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 10:41

Blue

xXBatmanXx wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 10:29:
Not having used Chrom myself - is there a reason to put up with such a problem and continue using it? What are the bennies of using the browser? Looking for input, as Firefox, even though they have fixed the biggest problem of being a resource whore, I need something different/better.

Most simply, the HTML editor I use can create drag and drop hyperlinks from webpages, and while MSIE and Chrome both create a link using the "title" tag from the page, links created in FireFox just use the URL.

So if I want to create a link to Blue's News in my editor using MSIE or Chrome it will come out like this:

Blue's News - All the carnage that's fit to post!

In Firefox it comes out like this:

www.bluesnews.com

And since I do that a million times a day, it's sort of a deal-breaker. Don't know what FF's problem is with this, but it's been present in every form of the browser.

How is this important? It's exemplified by this tweet about a recent story:

Out of 100+ sites, @bluesnewsdotcom was the only one to get the spacing and intercaps of "PC PowerPlay" correct. Cheers!

Also, the several second delay in launching FF to test that this is indeed still the case is another factor. Chrome launched with huge speed advantages over rival browsers, and while they've caught up since being challenged on their wretched performance, Chrome's zippiness had already won me over in spite of that bug.

This comment was edited on Oct 13, 2011, 10:47.




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		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Oct 13, 10:29	Re: Out of the Blue	xXBatmanXx
	2.	Oct 13, 10:29	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
>>	5.	Oct 13, 10:41	Re: Out of the Blue	Blue
	10.	Oct 13, 11:33	Re: Out of the Blue	Enahs
	17.	Oct 13, 12:20	Re: Out of the Blue	Blue
	18.	Oct 13, 12:56	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
	27.	Oct 13, 14:30	Re: Out of the Blue	Creston
	19.	Oct 13, 13:05	Re: Out of the Blue	Enahs
	20.	Oct 13, 13:07	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
	22.	Oct 13, 13:19	Re: Out of the Blue	Blue
	26.	Oct 13, 14:21	Re: Out of the Blue	Enahs
	3.	Oct 13, 10:31	Re: Out of the Blue	space captain
	4.	Oct 13, 10:32	Re: Out of the Blue	xXBatmanXx
	7.	Oct 13, 10:44	Re: Out of the Blue	Bucky
	8.	Oct 13, 11:00	Re: Out of the Blue	kanniballl
	6.	Oct 13, 10:43	Re: Out of the Blue	space captain
	9.	Oct 13, 11:11	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno
	11.	Oct 13, 11:35	Re: Out of the Blue	kanniballl
	12.	Oct 13, 11:37	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
	13.	Oct 13, 11:50	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno
	53.	Oct 14, 16:43	Re: Out of the Blue	Mr. Tact
	14.	Oct 13, 11:54	Re: Out of the Blue	Creston
	15.	Oct 13, 11:57	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno
	16.	Oct 13, 12:07	Re: Out of the Blue	DNForever
	21.	Oct 13, 13:11	Congratulations	Quboid
	23.	Oct 13, 13:27	Re: Out of the Blue	Pankin
	24.	Oct 13, 14:01	Chrome	Jim
	25.	Oct 13, 14:08	Re: Chrome	Blue
	28.	Oct 13, 14:45	Re: Chrome	jdreyer
	44.	Oct 13, 19:33	Re: Chrome	Jim
	50.	Oct 14, 09:24	Re: Chrome	Blue
	51.	Oct 14, 09:59	Re: Chrome	Enahs
	55.	Oct 15, 10:22	Re: Chrome	Frans
	29.	Oct 13, 14:54	Re: Out of the Blue	The Pyro
	32.	Oct 13, 15:20	Re: Out of the Blue	Blue
	37.	Oct 13, 16:26	Re: Out of the Blue	Fang
	40.	Oct 13, 16:37	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
	41.	Oct 13, 17:57	Re: Out of the Blue	Blue
	42.	Oct 13, 18:19	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
	43.	Oct 13, 18:39	Re: Out of the Blue	jdreyer
	45.	Oct 13, 19:50	Re: Out of the Blue	Quboid
	46.	Oct 13, 20:59	Re: Out of the Blue	kanniballl
	47.	Oct 13, 21:13	Re: Out of the Blue	Sepharo
	54.	Oct 14, 16:46	Re: Out of the Blue	Mr. Tact
	33.	Oct 13, 15:25	Re: Out of the Blue	Enahs
	34.	Oct 13, 15:40	Re: Out of the Blue	Creston
	39.	Oct 13, 16:35	Re: Out of the Blue	Enahs
	30.	Oct 13, 14:54	Re: Out of the Blue	jdreyer
	31.	Oct 13, 15:00	Re: Out of the Blue	Creston
	36.	Oct 13, 16:20	Re: Out of the Blue	kanniballl
	38.	Oct 13, 16:28	Re: Out of the Blue	Fang
	35.	Oct 13, 15:59	Re: Out of the Blue	The Pyro
	48.	Oct 13, 21:24	Re: Out of the Blue	Dades
	49.	Oct 13, 22:02	Re: Out of the Blue	Jim
	52.	Oct 14, 10:01	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno