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Why I use Google Chrome
- #1: It's fast.
- Or at least the experience is that it is fast. I often find Chrome waiting for my input, this was something that didn't happen on Firefox when I used it. Do note that I tend to be on the bleeding edge in my choices of versions.
- #2: It saves.
- I recently spent quite some time devising a wish-list so as to give my relatives a pointer towards what I'd like to receive for christmas. I accidentally clicked the close button on the tab, the tab was gone. "Fuck" was my first thought, "I hope Chrome saves input data" was the second, a right-click and some quick pointing and clicking later the tab was restored. With the only loss being the title of the input. (which was a lot less work having to rewrite than the 200+letter note...)
- #3: Sandbox-processes
- One of the most used functions within Google Chrome is it's versatile rearrangement features. I often find myself having two or three tabs that revolve around the same subject, and the rest around them being other stuff. As I rarely close tabs unless I have to, I proceed to click the tab, drag it to the middle of the screen, then repeat that until all the tabs are outside of the original browser window. Then I minimize the original, and start dragging the drop-outs into one of them, they seamlessly merge with the new "main"-window. This works so well that I actually wouldn't go back to Firefox as my main browser for this simple and probably weird cause. Wait, there's more to the way chrome handles this rearranging. It doesn't reload the tabs when I move it around. Firefox has gotten the "drop tab in middle of screen"-function going however. Chrome doesn't reload these tabs when you move them about... I many times find myself dragging a window onto my other screen so that I can view a video. In Firefox the tab is reloaded and the progress towards buffering finished is lost(Sometimes, on rare occations Firefox remembers that it has a cache. At which point it still needs to render the site anew).
- #4: Chromeexperiments
- Okay, I know. This isn't strictly chrome, however I've found that most of these can only be properly run on google chrome, for now.
- #5: Links
- In chrome you can click a link drag it to the top, release it and magically a new tab appears with the wanted link inside. Also, chrome has the "paste & go" function which I first found in Opera. It is some time since that time, However that was one of the few functions I missed during my time with Firefox.
- #6: Extensions
- YES, chrome HAS extensions, you just need to run the developer build. For now. While at the topic, the only reason why I waited a bit before I changed to Chrome was because of my relentless use of Adblock+ in Firefox. Thus Chrome lacked one of my most used addons. The other somewhat used addon that I still miss(it probably exist, I just need to find it) is downThemAll.
- #7: It installs everywhere
- The Chrome team did something rather interesting when they made the installer for google chrome. They took the realization that the browser one wants to use is a private choice that should be made by the user him/herself. They achieved this by installing Chrome into the userprofile instead of in the "public" "program files" directory. Thus allowing it to be installed even on highly restricted places. Since most places lets the user do stuff to their own profile.
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