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> 1. The omnibar completion isn't as good. Chrome figures out where I go pretty regularly, and autocompletes extremely well based upon habits. That's interesti

> 1. The omnibar completion isn't as good. Chrome figures out where I go pretty regularly, and autocompletes extremely well based upon habits. That's interesting, because I have found rather the opposite, for how I use it. Chrome doesn't seem to remember anything but my most frequented sites; with Firefox I find it much easier to find that thing I was reading a few weeks back that I did not bookmark by searching a word from the title. Chrome doesn't seem to remember anything but my most frequent and/or very most recently visited sites.

snide 6y ago
This might be true. I need to the two things out of my bar at the moment: (a) going to those 10 sites i always go to very quickly (b) to run a search on some linux/css/react thing. Chrome does really well there, no matter what config settings I change in Firefox. For the deep history I'm a pinboard user and bookmark at least a dozen things daily with tags.
s9w 6y ago
Yeah the FF bar completion is lightyears ahead of chromes. Chrome massively favors searches over history matches. I revisit every couple of months but it always is comically unusable for me. To the point where I visit only about 3 sites with my chrome, and even when I write the first 3 letters of a 4 word domain the default action is still a google search (with the correct site listed beneath but not default selected). edit: So I just opened my very secondary chrome. I use it for Youtube listening mostly. When I enter "hand co" to find my often listened "hand covers bruise" song, I get 7 (!) google searches, and the 8th and last entry is the Youtube link.
jiripospisil 6y ago
You can even type the exact parts of a URL and Chrome doesn't offer any autocompletion [0], just an option to search. But then once you do search, the result page shows the URL as visited... [1] I refuse to believe this behavior is anything but Google's attempt to show you ads on the result page. [0] https://i.imgur.com/3bp63K9.png https://i.imgur.com/3bp63K9.png [1] https://i.imgur.com/UPZvHEt.png https://i.imgur.com/UPZvHEt.png

snide 6y ago

This might be true. I need to the two things out of my bar at the moment: (a) going to those 10 sites i always go to very quickly (b) to run a search on some linux/css/react thing. Chrome does really well there, no matter what config settings I change in Firefox. For the deep history I'm a pinboard user and bookmark at least a dozen things daily with tags.

s9w 6y ago

Yeah the FF bar completion is lightyears ahead of chromes. Chrome massively favors searches over history matches. I revisit every couple of months but it always is comically unusable for me. To the point where I visit only about 3 sites with my chrome, and even when I write the first 3 letters of a 4 word domain the default action is still a google search (with the correct site listed beneath but not default selected). edit: So I just opened my very secondary chrome. I use it for Youtube listening mostly. When I enter "hand co" to find my often listened "hand covers bruise" song, I get 7 (!) google searches, and the 8th and last entry is the Youtube link.

jiripospisil 6y ago

You can even type the exact parts of a URL and Chrome doesn't offer any autocompletion [0], just an option to search. But then once you do search, the result page shows the URL as visited... [1] I refuse to believe this behavior is anything but Google's attempt to show you ads on the result page. [0] https://i.imgur.com/3bp63K9.png https://i.imgur.com/3bp63K9.png [1] https://i.imgur.com/UPZvHEt.png https://i.imgur.com/UPZvHEt.png