- User Experience -
- February 2nd, 2010,
- 5 Responses
Google Chrome is great, but …
- 2 February
I have switched to Google Chrome as an experiment, around a month and a half ago. Now, I can say that this in fact is the best browser out there, but ...
There’s always a but
, eh?
There are so many things I love about Chrome, staring on the Tab system– the fact that it squeezes as much tabs as possible, even if that means showing the favicon alone. Finally, FINALLY, Flash isn’t taking the whole browser down like it used to do with Firefox and Safari.
Chrome for Mac is still in Beta, so there are things that might change, but somehow I don’t think the general UI will be altered, which brings me to the but
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Moving the window. Most apps allow you to drag the window by clicking on any white space- there’s always a fair amount of it. When it comes to Chrome this is not the case. There’s very limited space you can drag the window by. Let’s compare:
Safari
Chrome
Solution
- Introduce Status Bar
- Add more spacing between top of the browser window and top of the Tabs container, which also allows to have the title of the page we’re currently browsing
5 responses so far. Care to add one yourself?
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pendowski February 2nd, 2010 at 11:37
Yeah - the title is pain in the ass. plus close buttons are always visible which takes some useful space and with many tabs opened you might click on a close button accidentally. I’m using Chromium so I think that changes are applied there sooner than on Chrome itself (like Extensions).
I don’t mind the grabbing area since I don’t move the window a lot (and I usually just grab the right-side of it).
What really makes me angry is that Chrome doesn’t ask you if you have few tabs open and you (of course accidentally) close the window do you really want to close it. combine it with lack of Restore windows from last session and only 4 positions of last closed tabs/windows and you can get REALLY mad every time you accidentally close some window.
That being said - I turned to Chrome/Chromium as an experiment and because of the flash and it is my main browser ever since.
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Harald Kirschner February 2nd, 2010 at 12:42
I use Zooom/2, which makes the search for draggable areas simpler: Drag/resize with the mouse by holding cmd-shift/opt-shift. Also avoid the click, which is good if you work with the trackpad.
I’d rather not add a status bar or a bigger title bar only to have some draggable white space.
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Michal Kozak May 4th, 2010 at 19:41
As far as it goes for the draggable-space issue, I couldn’t agree more. Although, as for the status bar, I can’t really hop onboard.
First of all, there IS status bar - it juts shows itself when needed.
Second of all - it saves space. Chrome has the biggest visible area for pages from all browsers and I simply love that.
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gordan May 19th, 2010 at 10:44
” Chrome has the biggest visible area for pages from all browsers and I simply love that.” . been using chrome ever since it came out. NEVER returned to mozilla again . using chrome gives all the other browsers’ browsing experience a specific obsolete feeling
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Joanna Ry?ko June 29th, 2010 at 22:53
What I love about Chrome for Mac is one common bar for typing URL and search keywords. What annoys me is that big download bar, which stays open even after the download is completed and there is no option to hide it automatically. That auto-hiding status bar is a great idea, but it doesn’t help if you still have to close the download bar manually. Since I bought my first Mac 4,5 years ago I was using Safari, and sometimes also Firefox for Web-Development. Now I can’t imagine using other browser than Chrome. With some Extensions it’s just perfect.
