File/view/edit is like ... the reason people want to switch. Moar screen real estate. But I'm sure there's ways to get it if you want it. The grey strip is an ugly bookmarks bar, which you can disable in the wrench settings.
Now when I open a new tab, the browser sort of crashes and I get the "(Not Responding)" message for about 10 seconds before it unfreezes and I can do stuff with it.
It might only be 10 seconds but I basically consider that unacceptable and I've been thinking of switching for a while, so hey presto. This seems better, apart from the highlighting being f***tarded, the sig thing and wanting the file/edit/view menu.
The one in the middle, with the "search" magnifying glass, is what I want rid of. As you can see, my bookmarks are above it.
Whatever that is, that's something installed on top of Chrome. Some add-on you may have installed with some random program that you never saw until now because you just now got Chrome. Check extensions and check your add/remove programs for a toolbar.
I just ran a search with it, it's that f***ing bigseekpro thing. It's been there since I downloaded hypercam (when I had to do that WWYD challenge on chatroulette).
From: DigitalIncision | #010 Right click and edit search engines. I imagine that means you're going to switch to Duck Duck Go, the best search engine in existence! Are you also saying that in order to switch search engines I have to go into "edit search engines"? Whereas with Firefox you could just immediately open up a dropdown menu and pick the one you needed? Because if there's no faster way to switch search engines I'm switching back tbqh, that is trash.
From: XIII_rocks | #019 From: DigitalIncision | #010 Right click and edit search engines. I imagine that means you're going to switch to Duck Duck Go, the best search engine in existence! Are you also saying that in order to switch search engines I have to go into "edit search engines"? Whereas with Firefox you could just immediately open up a dropdown menu and pick the one you needed? Because if there's no faster way to switch search engines I'm switching back tbqh, that is trash.
Of course there is. I'm sure there's ten extensions that do it. Personally, I just type in what I need. If I'm doing google image search I do !gi and then my search. !bi for bing images. !w for wikipedia. But that's a feature of Duck Duck Go, not Chrome. I think.
From: DigitalIncision | #010 Right click and edit search engines. I imagine that means you're going to switch to Duck Duck Go, the best search engine in existence! Are you also saying that in order to switch search engines I have to go into "edit search engines"? Whereas with Firefox you could just immediately open up a dropdown menu and pick the one you needed? Because if there's no faster way to switch search engines I'm switching back tbqh, that is trash.
You can set up keywords for each search engine I believe, such that hitting w and tab will do a wiki search. At least, I think that's how it works....don't really bother with it for the most part.
I believe there might also be an extension that allows you to do the old dropdown method, but I'm not sure.
From: GranzonEx | #023 The default search engine is Google. Why would you want to use anything else?
As a known Google fanatic, I recently switched to Duck Duck Go. The results are just so ... poor lately. And Google is adding more and more sway into paid results and then they added personal results that still mess things up even if you turn them off. Search should be neutral outside of fighting spam. But what really did it for me was the latest SEO update. It completely wrecked things. Search engines were really skewed and nowhere near accurate. It's better now, but they continue to be spotty. It's still something good for random use here and there, but it's no longer the powerful multi-tool it once was.
From: XIII_rocks | #025 From: GranzonEx | #023 The default search engine is Google. Why would you want to use anything else? I regularly use more specialist search engines.
An illegal one for "acquiring" things, youtube, amazon. There are other non-google sites that have search engines, you know
See but I think that's not really in the spirit of the word "search engine." I think a search "engine" is well-defined as something like google, bing and duck duck go. Site searches are understandably separate from that, but I do understand what you mean now.
From: XIII_rocks | #027 But yeah that's what I wanted to switch between easily like w/ firefox, the site searches. Not being able to do that is essentially a joke. You can set that up in the Manage Search Engines box in the settings.
Just change the keyword for various searches and you can access them quickly enough. Like I can type "yt cats" to search youtube with the string "cats."
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From: VintageGin | #022 You can set up keywords for each search engine I believe, such that hitting w and tab will do a wiki search. At least, I think that's how it works....don't really bother with it for the most part. it's space instead of tab, but that's how it works.
Remembering keywords for something I in all honesty don't use that often certainly isn't time saved! Also DP I've been meaning to do this for a while, that was just the straw tbh.
I much prefer the download viewer on this thing, though. Better than Firefox's popup window.
From: beavis666x2 | #037 You could keep using firefox, go to about:config, and find browser,newtab,url and set it to about:blank. From: XIII_rocks | #036 I've been meaning to do this for a while, that was just the straw tbh.
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From: XIII_rocks | #036 Remembering keywords for something I in all honesty don't use that often certainly isn't time saved! Also DP I've been meaning to do this for a while, that was just the straw tbh.
I much prefer the download viewer on this thing, though. Better than Firefox's popup window.
That's why I said "eventually!" CTRL+T, !gi [search query here] is much faster than opening up a new tab, selecting Google Images and then going back to the keyboard to type my query.
Not sure how people prefer Firefox to Chrome. I've been using them both for months since switching to Chrome (I do my private browsing in FF) and I've seen no reason to go back. I mean they've taken most of the great features that used to be exclusive to Chrome, but I still don't find it superior in any way.
Chrome is about 10 times faster than Firefox, uses only a fraction of the memory, and doesn't hassle you with pointless updates every time you open it. It also doesn't crash, because every page and plugin is its own process so that one website crashing doesn't wreck the browser.
That is also the bad thing about it though. If you want to have 50 tabs open, your task manager throws a google party. You'll want to keep Firefox around for those times.
From: Takfloyd_mkII__ | #044 Chrome is about 10 times faster than Firefox, uses only a fraction of the memory, and doesn't hassle you with pointless updates every time you open it. It also doesn't crash, because every page and plugin is its own process so that one website crashing doesn't wreck the browser.
That is also the bad thing about it though. If you want to have 50 tabs open, your task manager throws a google party. You'll want to keep Firefox around for those times.
Well you can wrap all of the Chrome stuff into one process as opposed to keeping Firefox around, but yeah. Also, I'd disagree that it uses a fraction of the memory. That is entirely dependent on usage. But it's definitely faster, and in my opinion, better.