<story><title>Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It</title><url>http://jtaby.com/2011/05/31/google-chrome-why-i-hate-it-and-continue-to-use-it.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtaby</author><text>Thanks a lot for your comment, callahad. I&apos;ll try to respond to your comments.&lt;p&gt;1. You&apos;re right, I hadn&apos;t actually noticed that until after I wrote the blog post. I think it&apos;s because I hide the Dock by default (still doesn&apos;t explain why I didn&apos;t notice it in the app switcher)&lt;p&gt;My point was, there are three places to manage downloads. I have to manually close the Downloads bar. Worst of all (and this is something I forgot to point out in the post) is that closing the downloads bar actually makes the browser window smaller!&lt;p&gt;2. You&apos;re right, there are nice parts of having the preferences be in the tab.&lt;p&gt;3. I didn&apos;t mean the search field covers search results, it covers the website&apos;s UI. Here&apos;s another example of it blocking the UI, this time in github: &lt;a href=&quot;http://cl.ly/1t450T1S0s2J2V0I3O1W&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cl.ly/1t450T1S0s2J2V0I3O1W&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>callahad</author><text>There are a couple of things to point out jtaby&apos;s critique of Chrome:&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;i&gt;There&apos;s no small, unobtrusive way to monitor the progress of downloads.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually, in OS X, the Chrome icon in the dock has a small pie chart overlay during downloads that indicates both the number of pending downloads as well as the aggregate progress of all downloads. If your dock is hidden, you can quickly and easily check the progress by hitting Cmd-Tab. In Windows 7, the &quot;tile&quot; in the Windows &quot;Dock&quot; fills from left to right, like a progress bar, to show the aggregate status of downloads. You can also click on the in-progress download, dismiss the dialog, and the file will open once the download completes.&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;i&gt;The large number of options makes finding what you want hard.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned, the search feature is handy, but not always sufficient. One nice aspect that gets overlooked is that the in-tab preferences are fully addressable: you can actually link to specific pages and panels. Though this doesn&apos;t help you find a preference in the first place, it does make communicating the location of known preferences much simpler.&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;i&gt;The search field covers the content of the site, if you were searching and a match was under the field, or you wanted to click a link/button under the search field, you’re out of luck.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually, the search field will intelligently slide out of the way to reveal matched content that it covers. If you need to click something underneath it, you can hit Escape to dismiss it, and your previously entered text will be saved and pre-filled the next time you hit Cmd-F.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>treeface</author><text>I see your point about #3, but to be honest, I&apos;ve been using Chrome since v1 and I have never once had this be an issue. Not a single time. There is simply never a case where what I&apos;m searching for is in the very top right 10 pixels of a page. In your github example, why would you ever be searching for &quot;dashboard&quot;, &quot;inbox&quot;, &quot;account settings&quot;, or &quot;log out&quot;?&lt;p&gt;Also I don&apos;t really understand your complaint about the bookmarks bar. Why do you have it up at all if you don&apos;t like the UI? If I want to go to a bookmarked page, I hit ctrl-shift-b to bring up the bar or, much more often, I open a new tab. I think the thing that separates Chrome from other browsers is the huge content real estate, and keeping the bookmarks bar up there takes away from this in a big way.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It</title><url>http://jtaby.com/2011/05/31/google-chrome-why-i-hate-it-and-continue-to-use-it.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtaby</author><text>Thanks a lot for your comment, callahad. I&apos;ll try to respond to your comments.&lt;p&gt;1. You&apos;re right, I hadn&apos;t actually noticed that until after I wrote the blog post. I think it&apos;s because I hide the Dock by default (still doesn&apos;t explain why I didn&apos;t notice it in the app switcher)&lt;p&gt;My point was, there are three places to manage downloads. I have to manually close the Downloads bar. Worst of all (and this is something I forgot to point out in the post) is that closing the downloads bar actually makes the browser window smaller!&lt;p&gt;2. You&apos;re right, there are nice parts of having the preferences be in the tab.&lt;p&gt;3. I didn&apos;t mean the search field covers search results, it covers the website&apos;s UI. Here&apos;s another example of it blocking the UI, this time in github: &lt;a href=&quot;http://cl.ly/1t450T1S0s2J2V0I3O1W&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cl.ly/1t450T1S0s2J2V0I3O1W&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>callahad</author><text>There are a couple of things to point out jtaby&apos;s critique of Chrome:&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;i&gt;There&apos;s no small, unobtrusive way to monitor the progress of downloads.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually, in OS X, the Chrome icon in the dock has a small pie chart overlay during downloads that indicates both the number of pending downloads as well as the aggregate progress of all downloads. If your dock is hidden, you can quickly and easily check the progress by hitting Cmd-Tab. In Windows 7, the &quot;tile&quot; in the Windows &quot;Dock&quot; fills from left to right, like a progress bar, to show the aggregate status of downloads. You can also click on the in-progress download, dismiss the dialog, and the file will open once the download completes.&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;i&gt;The large number of options makes finding what you want hard.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned, the search feature is handy, but not always sufficient. One nice aspect that gets overlooked is that the in-tab preferences are fully addressable: you can actually link to specific pages and panels. Though this doesn&apos;t help you find a preference in the first place, it does make communicating the location of known preferences much simpler.&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;i&gt;The search field covers the content of the site, if you were searching and a match was under the field, or you wanted to click a link/button under the search field, you’re out of luck.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually, the search field will intelligently slide out of the way to reveal matched content that it covers. If you need to click something underneath it, you can hit Escape to dismiss it, and your previously entered text will be saved and pre-filled the next time you hit Cmd-F.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>callahad</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Worst of all is that closing the downloads bar actually makes the browser window smaller!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It actually doesn&apos;t -- or at least, it doesn&apos;t seem to on the Dev Channel or Canary. If there&apos;s enough screen real estate, the downloads panel grows out of the bottom of the window, and shrinks away when dismissed. The viewport retains the same dimensions before and after.&lt;p&gt;If there isn&apos;t enough space below the window, the panel does indeed overlay the bottom ~47px of content, but in that case, dismissing it doesn&apos;t change the size of the window, restoring the viewport to its previous size.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s the most frustrating thing about Chrome: it&apos;s inconsistently polished, and in many cases, it feels like its relationship to ChromeOS is akin to the tail wagging the dog.</text></comment>