Comments on: Ten things I don’t like about Google Chrome

By: Kish

Kish — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:18:03 +0000

I still don’t know if chrome has auto suggest from history like firefox (LOVE this in firefox)
I have several development machines that don’t have domain names. So in Firefox I simply type in one digit, and it shows up in the autosuggest from my history. I don’t see that in Chrome.

By: Anton

Anton — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:29:00 +0000

By far the most annoying for me: The context menu on any web page accepts t as the shortcut for opening a link in a new tab. I’ve become used to that now, so every now and again I press t from the context menu on the bookmarks bar to open all the pages in new tabs, but alas this deletes the folder. So t in the context menu sometimes means open in new tab, but other times it means delete. This is especially annoying when you’re spent hours researching something and have saved all the tabs in a neat folder to continue later.

I know the whole idea of a context menu is that it changes depending on where the cursor is (hence the term context), but it still feels strange, especially seeing as middle-click on a mouse achieves the desired result in both cases.

Secondary to that, it would be nice to get a “Are you sure?” type confirmation when you delete a bookmarks folder with a bunch of bookmarks in it that you’ve worked really hard to accumulate.

By: Raghuttam

Raghuttam — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:39:54 +0000

why cant tou see the download speed while downloading stuff on google chrome?

By: Flores

Flores — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:53:15 +0000

What I do not like” are:

1. Very hard to control flash and other video files. I even cannot enlarge or make a full view of video such as YouTube in Chrome.

2. I cannot control or block flash adds with any plugin or addson.

3. Very hard to scroll up and down in many websites.

4. When we copy a file, it copies all, included background and shading.

Thanks.

By: Raiflek

Raiflek — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:49:14 +0000

Still wanting the save-as fix (from Summervillain, 2008): “If I do a save-as to some location, I would like the next save-as in the same tab/session to default to the last-used location
Chrome’s password manager doesn’t recognize/offer to remember some of the sites that Firefox’s password manager does”

Does anyone know of a fix?

By: gxg

gxg — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:47:07 +0000

A centralized way to set preferences (the equivalent of Firefox’s about:config) would be most welcomed. Using commend line flags can be very obscure, especially to less experienced users. Unfortunately I don’t see any initiative in that direction…

By: Martin L

Martin L — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:08:43 +0000

Choosing where the Chrome cache directory resides would be beneficial to some users – it’s possible in Firefox, Opera, and even IE.

I can understand some of the reasons for installing Chrome on Windows in the user profile, but why does my cache-less Chrome consume 190MB of disk space in this area, yet Opera 10.51 on the same machine takes 13MB?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:48:31 +0000

I like the speed of the browser, but it needs more add ons and tool bar features. Too beta for me right now.

By: MikeB

MikeB — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:44:08 +0000

At least as an option: new tab = home page! I have a home page for a reason.

Opening an image that didn’t show up in a new tab sounds a lot like it’s supposed to be a kludgy workaround. I actually write code like that but not if I’m handing it out anywhere, it’s crude.

If I close the last tab, it should show a new tab, a blank tab or nothing.

Let me rename “Other Bookmarks” (I want to get rid of “Other”) and move it up with everything else. I already have bookmarks, why do I want more on the bookmark bar? I don’t, but I have to have the whole bar showing to get reasonably quick access to my bookmarks. Lots of wasted screen real-estate there.

Open Chrome, open anything else. Right-click the taskbar and pick either tile option. Is Chrome a phantom window?

Min/max/close are the wrong size and in the wrong place.

It simply doesn’t behave or look like anything else. Please note that’s NOT a compliment.

I’ve got multi-user operating systems that take up less space than Chrome (OK, they’re not current, but they are fully functional) does for a single user. Add another user, there goes another 100+MBs. The ability to install Chrome as an app (in Program Files!) with multiple profiles would be great. I’m not saying replace the current method (dumbing down users is always a good idea, makes them more gullible) but as an alternative.

Does skinning really have to require resource hacking? I mean, seriously.

Gives up too easily when it can’t get a file. Maybe it’s a timeout kicking in, I don’t know. I DO know that I have to reload a page or “open image in new tab” a LOT.

I’m researching replacements for IE6 since web sites are starting to drop support for it. Although I’ve had fun playing with it, Chrome feels like a beta (at best) to me. It does not feel like it’s ready for normal users. It doesn’t behave like an app should and, while simplicity is nice, you can carve out too much. I’ll simply have to drop it from the list of maybes.

And I had such hope…

By: Tony Heywood

Tony Heywood — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:40:13 +0000

I have still issues with hard refresh in Chrome. Is this something that has been sorted out now.

I am trying to get a hard refresh on this page

http://www.flip.co.uk

It now has a video imbedded and I can’t see it.