Posted by Thomas Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:14:15 +0000
Chrome doesn’t:
- Expose proxy settings through the ui (they’re set via environment variables). So if I want to change them, I have to go to the cli to set env vars, then restart chrome.
Display link urls in the status bar when I hover over links.Apparently it does this. Don’t know what I was smoking.- Let me middle click in the body of the page to load a new url (this is fixed upstream, but not in the versions I’m running).
- Allow css ad blocking (http://www.floppymoose.com/).
- I have to add a trailing slash to the end of everything so it doesn’t try to do a web search for whatever I type.
- Update: Doesn’t let you hit ‘/’ to start searching.
- Update: When searching doesn’t let you hit enter when matching a link to go to that link.
- Update: It seems to take its sweet time sometimes doing what appears to be a dns lookup on the proxy. TTLs anyone?
- Update: Selected text isn’t automatically the desired search text when opening the search box.
- Update: Can’t shift delete mistyped urls in the omnibox.
Update: Chrome automatically selects text when the omnibox gains focus, clobbering anything I had in my clipboard. Something similar happens with the find field, but it’s that whatever I had in the clipboard goes away completely.- Update: Can’t control click and drag to select multiple rows of a single column in an html table.
- Update: When selecting space delimited text, pressing delete/backspace will actually delete more than is actually selected.
- Update: Backspace no longer goes to the previous page.
What version are you running. I just tested 3.x and 4.x and urls show up when I hover over links. I’m pretty sure I remember that being there from day one because it took some time to get over the distraction of having that popup come up and go away as I moved around the screen.
I’ve been looking forward to a good adblocker once extension support is a little more mature. Here’s one I found that seems to not be supported any more: (http://www.adsweep.org). It seems like it would be pretty straightforward to write at least a user script to load the css from floppymoose and probably not too much more to make an extension if desired. Not quite the same as auto-loading, but not a terrible solution. I’m pretty sure extensions and user scripts are on by default in the dev channel at least.
I don’t guess I’ve ever had the problem with the trailing slash. Maybe it’s actually doing a web search and I just don’t notice, but if it looks like a url it usually tries to load it. Of course if that fails it will search.
I don’t really use proxies so that hasn’t bothered me, but I have a similar gripe about ssl certificates. We use custom and self-signed certs at work and while it’s pretty streamlined on windows since it just launches the windows gui, it’s a whole other beast on linux. I had to install new packages, create special files in special places, then restart and hope it worked. I know there’s a lot to be said for not reinventing the wheel, but when the alternative is trudging through the mud sometimes you need a new wheel.
p.s. I guess comments aren’t intended to be this long since I only get 4 lines in this box.
p.p.s. My biggest gripe of the day is that you need some OAuth or something so I don’t have to type strange words that I can hardly read every time I want to post a comment ;)
Test, test for OpenID support, including a lack of recaptcha for logged in users…
And logged out/anonymous users can still post comments, but still with recaptcha…
Awesome, now that I have my openid setup it works great. I have to remember the login url, though.