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Chrome (okay, I only looked at Chromium) is ugly, has basically no way to adapt it to one’s needs, runs out of RAM quickly, is slow and needs updating all the t

Chrome (okay, I only looked at Chromium) is ugly, has basically no way to adapt it to one’s needs, runs out of RAM quickly, is slow and needs updating all the time. Not really a difference to IE.

k__ 13y ago
I find it interesting that there are still people out there who think Chrome is ugly. Firefox and Internet Explorer have all bad tab and/or adressbar placement. Or do you just find any browser ugly by definition?
- pong_ 13y ago
  Try to open 100 tabs, first in Chrome, then in Firefox. Chrome doesn't even show the titles and runs quickly out of memory. Chrome's process model incurs in substantial overhead, opening tens of tabs in a low-spec PC it's a surefire way to freeze the system.
  - k__ 13y ago
    I just open more than 10 tabs if I'm searching something. Like opening 20 results, than closing them after I visited every tab and found out that they don't have what I searched for. Yeah I know. Many of my friends, whos PC usage is 99% browser and nothing else, still get their 8GB RAM full with Chrome only, just because they spam tabs all over the place. I get crazy if I have too many tabs open for too long, don't know why...
- claudius 13y ago
  I’m using Opera, so Firefox and IE are not exactly gold standards of nonugliness to me. The biggest contributor to me finding Chrome ugly is certainly that the tab bar is placed on the top rather than the left (and me being too lazy to search for an appropriate extension to change that).
  - k__ 13y ago
    I see, yeah this is probably nice, I know many people who abuse the tab-feature, because they don't like the bookmarks. (Never had a problem with it, but most people seem to think the bookmarks are "broken") I like Chrome over FFox and IE BECAUSE of the top-tabs. Firefox needs more vertical space and Internet Explorer just cripples them beneath the address bar :\
    - claudius 13y ago
      Oh, don’t get me wrong, of course tabs belong above the address bar (I think recent browsers get this right). Even better though is putting the tab bar on the right where it doesn’t eat precious vertical space.
    - jsolson 13y ago
      For me, bookmarks are a hole where content goes to die. Beyond about 5 of them which will get used more or less daily, I'm more likely to just search for content again than to think to check my bookmarks. Unfortunately this usually leads to 100-200 open tabs at any given time of things that are either "in-queue" for reading or research/reference for what I'm currently working on. I'm not going to claim it's the best system (or even a good one), but you really do get used to it and it works pretty well.
      - k__ 13y ago
        I know what you mean, I only use a few bookmarks in the bookmarks-bar (sorted in folders) and the rest is lost... So you saying, the fact that you have about 100-200 open tabs is not because you need them (...just search for content again...), but you just don't close them when not needed anymore?
        jsolson 13y ago
        Many of them you could probably say at some level that I "need them", in that it'd be faster to find the tab among the open ones then to find the content again. Usually they end up clustered into groups around particular topics. For example "all of the man pages for the BSD socket API" and "all of the RFCs for the protocol I'm implementing".
- abruzzi 13y ago
  My second biggest gripe with the Chrome UI it the tabs shrink the size of the window title bar which makes it harder (read slower) to move windows around. (first biggest gripe is the single search/url field, but that is getter hard to get away from)

Chrome (okay, I only looked at Chromium) is ugly, has basically no way to adapt it to one’s needs, runs out of RAM quickly, is slow and needs updating all the time. Not really a difference to IE.

k__ 13y ago

I find it interesting that there are still people out there who think Chrome is ugly. Firefox and Internet Explorer have all bad tab and/or adressbar placement. Or do you just find any browser ugly by definition?

pong_ 13y ago
Try to open 100 tabs, first in Chrome, then in Firefox. Chrome doesn't even show the titles and runs quickly out of memory. Chrome's process model incurs in substantial overhead, opening tens of tabs in a low-spec PC it's a surefire way to freeze the system.
- k__ 13y ago
  I just open more than 10 tabs if I'm searching something. Like opening 20 results, than closing them after I visited every tab and found out that they don't have what I searched for. Yeah I know. Many of my friends, whos PC usage is 99% browser and nothing else, still get their 8GB RAM full with Chrome only, just because they spam tabs all over the place. I get crazy if I have too many tabs open for too long, don't know why...
claudius 13y ago
I’m using Opera, so Firefox and IE are not exactly gold standards of nonugliness to me. The biggest contributor to me finding Chrome ugly is certainly that the tab bar is placed on the top rather than the left (and me being too lazy to search for an appropriate extension to change that).
- k__ 13y ago
  I see, yeah this is probably nice, I know many people who abuse the tab-feature, because they don't like the bookmarks. (Never had a problem with it, but most people seem to think the bookmarks are "broken") I like Chrome over FFox and IE BECAUSE of the top-tabs. Firefox needs more vertical space and Internet Explorer just cripples them beneath the address bar :\
  - claudius 13y ago
    Oh, don’t get me wrong, of course tabs belong above the address bar (I think recent browsers get this right). Even better though is putting the tab bar on the right where it doesn’t eat precious vertical space.
  - jsolson 13y ago
    For me, bookmarks are a hole where content goes to die. Beyond about 5 of them which will get used more or less daily, I'm more likely to just search for content again than to think to check my bookmarks. Unfortunately this usually leads to 100-200 open tabs at any given time of things that are either "in-queue" for reading or research/reference for what I'm currently working on. I'm not going to claim it's the best system (or even a good one), but you really do get used to it and it works pretty well.
    - k__ 13y ago
      I know what you mean, I only use a few bookmarks in the bookmarks-bar (sorted in folders) and the rest is lost... So you saying, the fact that you have about 100-200 open tabs is not because you need them (...just search for content again...), but you just don't close them when not needed anymore?
      - jsolson 13y ago
        Many of them you could probably say at some level that I "need them", in that it'd be faster to find the tab among the open ones then to find the content again. Usually they end up clustered into groups around particular topics. For example "all of the man pages for the BSD socket API" and "all of the RFCs for the protocol I'm implementing".
abruzzi 13y ago
My second biggest gripe with the Chrome UI it the tabs shrink the size of the window title bar which makes it harder (read slower) to move windows around. (first biggest gripe is the single search/url field, but that is getter hard to get away from)