tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54366495322531149952012-02-16T20:38:52.788+01:00thoughts, facts and feelingsAndrejhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13770625208527797451noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436649532253114995.post-9162259544587306292010-08-06T23:45:00.000+02:002010-08-06T23:45:44.065+02:00

Google's Gmail made another step towards the client operating system integration. It was possible to drag&drop files from operating system to Gmail window to make an message attachment. Now it's possible to drag&drop attachments out of Gmail message to perform "save"-like feature. It works in Google Chrome only, so enjoy your browser!

Andrejhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13770625208527797451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436649532253114995.post-50632271031188085392010-07-13T00:06:00.000+02:002010-07-13T00:06:11.378+02:00

There is a odd possibility of losing installed plugins after file system crash. It happened to me today. No plugins means popping up flash ads, no twitter client, no readability plugin, no fun. The repair procedure is quite easy. There is a directory of so called Local Storage where chrome saves all site and plugin specific settings. At WindowsXP its in Documents and Settings/[username]/Local

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I just discovered great Chrome text selecting feature. When I double-click on text, the word is selected. It's common. Moving the mouse while having left button pressed change the selection. It's common too. But you can use keyboard arrow keys together with Shift key to select text more precisely than using just the mouse. It's really handy especially when I am travelling and not using mouse but

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Chrome 2 is here for a while with some nice features. Autoscroll is the one that I like a lot.People are used to middle click on the document and then navigate with single move of mouse. And it's good that this nice little feature is in Chrome.Btw: I'm still looking forward for support of user plugins.

Andrejhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13770625208527797451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436649532253114995.post-40922379958701199602008-09-26T10:28:00.002+02:002008-09-26T14:03:55.835+02:00

I really miss one thing in Chrome - add-ons or plugins. I have few of them (let's name just Adblock Plus, Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper, Flashblock and Mouse gestures) in my Firefox and it makes this browser a way better product.You may imagine my joy when I heard that Google will adopt add-ons in Chrome:Google's new Web browser eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox

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Updating software is important. Here is a short story of updating Chrome....and after Chrome restart:

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This time I stumble upon a flash video on YouTube. I just want to see another part of my favorite Top Gear program and it was not playing at all. Just load video in back (I can see running gauge) but no video playing.Flash plugin was dead!Now I have two choices - restarting the browser or restarting the flash plugin. In all other browsers I had to restart the whole thing. Users of Chrome are

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It's nice to have buddy who remember your passwords. It's natural that web browser offer you to remember your web passwords. But what if you need to know what are those eleven bullets that password manager automatically entered below your login?Firefox can show you the passwords in a password manager. The only problem is that it shows all your passwords at once. Not a big problem when you are

Andrejhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13770625208527797451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436649532253114995.post-83020235792732625982008-09-05T12:56:00.001+02:002008-09-05T12:57:37.806+02:00

Two simple words: about:internets

Andrejhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13770625208527797451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436649532253114995.post-82348684771696215672008-09-04T22:45:00.003+02:002008-09-04T22:49:57.404+02:00

It seems that this screen displaying "Aw, Snap!" text is named Sad tab and is something like BSOD of individual tab. Anything went wrong so tab was killed and the rest of the browser remains.

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Every time something can go wrong. But reporting problem with a piece of humor is quite nice.This remind me Haiku error messages Cables have been cutSouthwest of Northeast somewhereWe are not amused.from BeOS Operating System and it's applications.

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It happened to everyone. You accidentally close tab without bookmarking address. Or even worse - you closed tab before submitting form?No problem with Chrome!On the new tab there is a list of Recently closed tabs. It contains tabs that were recently closed (intentionally or accidentally) with all their data and state. So you will never lose unsibmitted text again.

Andrejhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13770625208527797451noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436649532253114995.post-1271010884883965162008-09-03T13:22:00.003+02:002008-09-03T14:15:10.466+02:00

Editing text in web browser could be painful. Remember your last Wikipedia article editing? Especially when you need to enter few more sentences than web designer thought you may enter and you have to scroll your text in a tiny little text area. It become real issue so I've got small bookmarklet for resizing text area on page. One click and every text area is 10 characters wider and longer.

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It's common that tabs can be moved. But tabs in Chrome can be moved out of tab row.When you remove tab from tab row and drop it somewhere else, you will get new Chrome window surrounding this new tab. This way it's possible to create ad hoc windows and move tabs between them.

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Chrome is using little more memory than Firefox. But it is able to free memory wiser than Firefox, so it's able to run longer without getting very big.If you look at about:memory you can see running browsers (Chrome, Firefox, MSIE) and their memory usage. It does not recognize alternative browsers like K-Meleon or Flock - those may be added later.Below this is a list of Chrome processes (tabs)

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I am used to look at addresses of active links at status bar. That's why I always have status bar visible in Firefox. But there is no status bar in Chrome. The active link address appears in a auto-hide strip at the bottom of the page. When the focus is removed from link, the address disappear. Nice idea!

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It seems that it's up and running. Yes, running is the right word to describe the speed of this peace of software, mainly on scripted pages like Gmail.

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Well, it's finally installed. Installation went smooth, all I have to do is download just 475kB long ChromeSetup.exe installer from (http://www.google.com/chrome) and run it. Installer downloaded rest of installation and after a while just offered me to import settings from Firefox of MSIE.In fact I didn't import anything because I don't use MSIE at all and Firefox import failed because the

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I had to go offline for a while but now I managed to download Chrome Installer from http://www.google.com/chrome. I am looking forward to new experience.

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Just a few minutes before Google release long rumored and short awaited Google Chrome browser I am establishing this communication portal to share facts, thoughts and feelings.

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