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The whole reason i went back to 1 when i tested out 2 (when it was initially released as beta) was because of that terrible "feature" called Full Page Zoom eating up so much resources.
I'm don't have particularly bad vision, and even if i DID, i STILL wouldn't force the terrible feature on people, it is a waste of resources.
Leave that crap to an extension if, GOD forbid, they want everything to zoom "consistently", or, for the love of god, please start using the OPTIONS more, give me the choice, at least.
At least have some sort of options hidden away like about:config, it won't confuse people who don't know about it.
"Stop trying to help me cross the road, i can walk and see perfectly fine."
Just doing something as simple as loading the Bebo homepage, i hit 90% on both cores, and it massively disrupts every other tab AND other programs. (it isn't just that site, though, it has been happening with a lot of them)
This is unacceptable. I'm going back to Version 1, screw version 2, and i will be disabling the auto-updater now.
And a further kick in the teeth was the fact that Multiple Accounts never made this release, and scrolling is still quite horrible.
Really, really not impressed by this move. It was a similar move by Mozilla with FF2, and FF2 was god-awful.
As far as I can tell, all tech writers ARE cheering Chrome. It's just ordinary users who were underwhelmed by it, especially those who'd already been using Firefox. Perhaps if Chrome had been held a few more months until it was customizable (and therefore competitive), it might have made a larger splash.
Their browser is good too and as a Web Developer, they have the best analytics and webmaster tools out there.
Then there is Google Earth.
I think you are very uninformed regarding Google products and their popularity.
IE8 is the only browser that loads fast enough, in my opinion / measurements
Yours truly,
Goggle
Then everyone would stop using Google at the click of a mouse button.
Google is smarter than that.
As long as they have peopleīs trust people will use them.
Google is aware of this more than anyone else.
YEAH!!!!!!
I think putting FF at number one marketshare will only cause them to switch spots with IE.
Microsoft has ways of knowing how to innovate when they need to..
Keeping two browsers open works just fine.
- by queticomn June 29, 2009 4:40 PM PDT
- google is doing to the internet what m$ has done an is still doing.
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(19 Comments)Die g$$gle.