Comments on: Chrome Reaches Beta for Mac, Linux

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:47:02 +0000

Interesting. I love keyboard shortcuts like that, another reason I really like the Omnibox. Generally speaking, Chromium has been moving more quickly than Chrome, mostly b/c they release nightly builds. Also, someone at TechCrunch wrote a nightly build script for Chromium (Mac), if you want to keep it updated.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:44:05 +0000

Heh, I hear you. I finally got all my Macs up to 10.6 a few months ago, and boy was I worried my wife's MB would cough up a hairball going from 10.4 to 10.5 to 10.6. Luckily, it went smoothly.

By: uvox

uvox — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:25:52 +0000

I'll get to it eventually. One of the joys of trying to work with 4 laptops simultaneously…

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:47:02 +0000

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:44:05 +0000

Heh, I hear you. I finally got all my Macs up to 10.6 a few months ago, and boy was I worried my wife's MB would cough up a hairball going from 10.4 to 10.5 to 10.6. Luckily, it went smoothly.

By: uvox

uvox — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:25:52 +0000

I'll get to it eventually. One of the joys of trying to work with 4 laptops simultaneously…

By: jpiwowar

jpiwowar — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:44:52 +0000

Keen, I'll poke around w/ Chromium, then.
Re: The backslash to search thing: You hit / and start typing, and FF jumps to the first string on the page that matches. ctrl/cmd-G takes you to the next matching string, etc. So far it's like Cmd-F, but there's a small difference: you can tab from the highlighted string to the next closest field. I use this all the time when a page doesn't start me on a login field: /log . Works for links, too: /linktext follows the link (though that's the same as using cmd-f).

Basically, using vi has managed to creep into my browsing habits, and it's deeply ingrained.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:07:25 +0000

Pretty sure Chromium on Mac has the Task Manager. Not familiar with using backslash for in-page search; do you mean in the location bar? Maybe I'm not getting what you mean, but I always use Ctrl/Cmd+F for that.

By: jpiwowar

jpiwowar — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:19:17 +0000

I'm posting this comment from Chrome beta; we'll see how fast I can be. Will grab Chromium later to check out extensions. One thing I'm missing so far is using backslash for in-page search. Hadn't realized how often I used that for jumping to fields, following links, etc. until I started working w/ Chrome this evening.

Too bad TaskManager isn't available for the Mac version; that's something I'd like to see.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:07:49 +0000

Yeah, but Leopard has a lot of new features in it. You must have some incompatible software or something.

By: uvox

uvox — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:20:08 +0000

becuase it works for me…:)

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:16:46 +0000

But not on other machines? So, you only use it for memory management? Hmm. Interesting.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:16:06 +0000

Why are you still on Tiger?

By: John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:53:57 +0000

I have a hand-me down Windows XP laptop computer at home with limited RAM, and Chrome is my browser of choice when I'm using that laptop.

By: uvox

uvox — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:21:30 +0000

Actually Chrome reaches for Beta Mac OS 10.5 only, as I just found out…