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!
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Handy text selection
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 touchpad, which is not very precise device.
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 touchpad, which is not very precise device.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Broken flash repair
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 lucky - they should start Chrome task Manager (Shift+ESC) and just kill the misbehaving flash plugin.
Flash frame within YouTube turns black with sad face (yes, it works for tabs or plugins) and at the top of the tab there was the message that "The following plug-in has crashed: Shockwave Flash". Intentionally, at least for this time.
After reloading the tab it loads the new instance of Flash plugin and video starts.
Nice work, guys!
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 lucky - they should start Chrome task Manager (Shift+ESC) and just kill the misbehaving flash plugin.
Flash frame within YouTube turns black with sad face (yes, it works for tabs or plugins) and at the top of the tab there was the message that "The following plug-in has crashed: Shockwave Flash". Intentionally, at least for this time.
After reloading the tab it loads the new instance of Flash plugin and video starts.
Nice work, guys!
Saved passwords
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 sitting at home, but what about showing all passwords in a office or in an airport? Tens of people can see your passwords! Not a big deal!
Chrome is more secure even in this one little feature. It stores passwords (when you allow it, of course). It also offer you to show your passwords. But it's showing only the password for account you currently select.
Only problem is that you can not copy that password, but I hope someone will take care on this.
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 sitting at home, but what about showing all passwords in a office or in an airport? Tens of people can see your passwords! Not a big deal!
Chrome is more secure even in this one little feature. It stores passwords (when you allow it, of course). It also offer you to show your passwords. But it's showing only the password for account you currently select.
Only problem is that you can not copy that password, but I hope someone will take care on this.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Sad tab
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.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Resizing text area
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. Instant text area enlargement. But it's not so easy when you have to look for this bookmarklet every time you edit something big. Not to mention that I am not always editing on my own PC.
Pain!
But in Chrome there is the gray thing with stripes in a bottom right corner of every text area. You drag this corner and move it right or down to make your life better.
Pain!
But in Chrome there is the gray thing with stripes in a bottom right corner of every text area. You drag this corner and move it right or down to make your life better.
Move tabs to create Chrome window
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.
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.
Memory usage
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) with their PIDs, tab name and memory consumption.
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) with their PIDs, tab name and memory consumption.
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