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« on: February 21, 2011, 09:01:51 PM »
Will You Miss The Browser Address Bar If Google Kills It?
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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2011, 01:38:58 AM »
Ya.
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2011, 02:05:44 AM »
How does Google kill the address bar of non-Google browsers?

(After all, most people, myself included, don't use it.)
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2011, 02:14:04 AM »
No, because I don't use Chrome.  Internet Explorer 9, baby!
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« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2011, 02:00:45 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2011, 02:38:49 PM »
Yikes, Google is treading shark jumping territory here.
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« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2011, 04:46:18 PM »
Would that be much different?  Wouldn't it go to the web site, unless a search query was entered instead?
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« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2011, 07:06:53 PM »
I do agree that this could lead to increases in phishing schemes, especially among people who don't know how to use computers well.
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« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2011, 12:57:27 AM »
Uh... how else am I supposed to go to a website?
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« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2011, 01:01:15 AM »
Quote from: Lief on February 23, 2011, 12:57:27 AM
Uh... how else am I supposed to go to a website?

Under the new Chrome plan it'd just be hidden. Click on a tab and it'd appear but once you enter the site, it goes away. So of course it becomes far easier for phisers, rickrollers and leads to a lot more mistakes with mistyped URLs.

The truth: Chrome sucks. Everyone should just use Opera.
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« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2011, 01:06:27 AM »
Quote from: Thousand Grains of Sand on February 23, 2011, 01:01:15 AM
The truth: Chrome sucks. Everyone should just use Opera.

This is correct.
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« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2011, 01:12:41 AM »
It's a shame Opera isn't more well known or used, it's the only browser with no major flaws and does everything very solidly. It basically pioneered tab-based browsing too. The only thing I don't like about it is the inability to Watch Instantly on Netflix on it, but eh, I keep IE for that only. And the new Dave's Redistricting App works too which was another rare weakness.

At least it's the most popular browser in Ukraine and a few other ex-Soviet countries. Fun site by the way: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200901-201001-bar
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« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2011, 01:15:06 AM »
Why are Anglophone countries so epic fail in using IE overwhelmingly?

Well Thailand is even more IE. That's one area where The Bad Place is better (not much better granted.)
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« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2011, 01:22:34 AM »
Yay for Opera. Cheesy
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« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2011, 01:41:03 AM »
Opera is paying the price for having a poor business model in the 2000s.  People were desperate to move away from IE around 2004-05, Firefox won the war because it was the only free alternative.  Opera gave out free trials but had to be purchased and that was a turnoff.  Firefox became the standard.
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« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2011, 04:28:37 PM »
Quote from: Thousand Grains of Sand on February 23, 2011, 01:12:41 AM
And the new Dave's Redistricting App works too which was another rare weakness.
That's the one thing I'm regularly using Chrome rather than Firefox for. Works a lot better, for some reason.
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« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2011, 05:15:27 PM »

^This^
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« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2011, 08:05:26 PM »
I have no idea why, but the new FF beta works really slowly on my computer. That's really the only reason why I use Chrome. I have Opera installed, but I never started using it because of the Netflix thing.
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« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2011, 09:03:24 PM »
Every website works fine on Firefox. So I use that.

And as a bitter old 21-year-old, I'm too far stuck in my ways to ever change.
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« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2011, 09:40:33 PM »
Quote from: Lief on February 23, 2011, 09:03:24 PM
Every website works fine on Firefox. So I use that.

And as a bitter old 21-year-old, I'm too far stuck in my ways to ever change.

I'm the king of stubborn browser preferences. I stuck with Netscape until it got so crappy IE became the better browser. Once Firefox came out I switched to that and haven't looked back. So over a good 16 or so years of Internet usage, I've switched browsers twice.

I hate the way Chrome looks, and I don't like the fact that the other browsers seem to be trying to copy it.
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« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2011, 10:21:47 PM »

Indeed.
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« Reply #21 on: February 23, 2011, 10:23:59 PM »
I used to use Firefox too but it would freeze up all the time on my old comp. So I switched to the far more stable Opera. With my new computer I didn't even bother installing Firefox, Opera works so stable I saw no reason to go back. The only other browser I keep is IE for Netflix Watch Instantly. I used to use it for Dave's Redistricting App but as noted above no longer need to.
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« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2011, 11:27:41 PM »
Opera doesn't work with Netflix?  Yeah, I'm never switching now.
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« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2011, 12:09:20 AM »
Opera > Safari > *huge gap* > Firefox > Chrome > IE

If BushOklahoma doesn't use IE I'd be kind of scared really.
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« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2011, 03:31:55 AM »
Quote from: Thousand Grains of Sand on February 24, 2011, 12:09:20 AM
Opera > Safari > *huge gap* > Firefox > Chrome > IE

There's a huge gap between the first two too. I just downloaded Opera a couple days ago and it's much, much faster and more efficient.
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