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[RionaaM]

If you don't mind the Chromium engine itself, you might want to take a look at Vivaldi Browser. It's still Chromium-based, but it's made by some of the people that made the Presto Opera and is made under similar philosophy. I don't really like the engine myself, so I haven't used it and can't say if it's usable for everyday browsing yet, but it's worth at least checking out.

Does it have the Notes feature? That's something I use a lot in Opera 12 and miss in other browsers. It saves me from keeping a lot of random .txt files in my Documents folder (which is virtually unusable thanks to all the games putting their save files there). I also don't like how tabs work in Chrome, as new ones open after the current one, instead of at the end of the list (this is annoying if you have like 5 tabs open and click a link on the 2nd), and using Ctrl+Tab to cycle through them moves in order instead of to the previous one (as Alt+Tab does with Windows applications).

 

[Parakeetman]

Im still trying to figure out why the hell is my gmail icon hidden behind another menu now since the last version? I think. :/

Didnt see any option to fix that either when looking around the settings.

 

[jstripes]

Google's got some great technology, but when it comes to UX, they have no clue.

Anyone here ever used Google Apps for Business? It's the complete opposite of "discoverable". Then there's Android, with settings stuck in weird places.

 

[nillapuddin]

Save me Spartan, you're my only hope

 

[Rootbeer]

how do you even access the new bookmark panel?

I'm on Chrome dev channel and it doesn't seem to be present on it

I have the flags turned 'on' in the options for the new panel but it only shows the old one

anyway, the fact that chrome refuses to add a bookmark sidebar still hurts me so much sidebars make bookmark navigation so ideal

 

[faridmon]

Yeah, its been shit. I have to open another tab in order to open bookmarks each time, which is baffling how it get past Quality Control

 

[Cheebo]

I honestly dont even know why I still use chrome.

Whats the best alternative out there? Firefox? Opera? I been so out of the third party browser game since switching to chrome.

 

[The Jackdog]

I honestly dont even know why I still use chrome.

Whats the best alternative out there? Firefox? Opera? I been so out of the third party browser game since switching to chrome.

I switched to firefox after I realized chrome was using like 40 processes in task manager/activity monitor

 

[Winterblink]

I switched to firefox after I realized chrome was using like 40 processes in task manager/activity monitor

Each tab is sandboxed, each extension is as well, multiplied by how many tabs the extension is active on. Process separation like that takes a certain level of overhead, and even with that Chrome still comes off in use as a less bloated browser to me.

Note I said TO ME, because I get that this is a subjective evaluation.

 

[The Real Abed]

I switched to firefox after I realized chrome was using like 40 processes in task manager/activity monitor

That's how the good browsers do it now. Firefox doesn't for some reason which means a single tab can take down the whole thing. Safari does it too and I thank it for it.

Firefox is really really behind on technology. It's kind of sad. I used it all the way until I switched to Chrome in 2010. Now I just keep it around for certain things. I have like a hundred tabs open in it across 3-4 windows. But I only use it because it's the only browser with a reliable video downloader that works on all certain website video players. (And for occasionally downloading non certain types of videos.) It's basically just a video and bulk image downloading browser for me and that's all it's good for. I wouldn't trust it for actual browsing. So outdated in all aspects of browser design. Even with its new UI.

 

[zbeeb]

Are you guys telling me you dont just type the website in the address bar and let chrome find the bookmarks itself?

 

[Joni]

Are you guys telling me you dont just type the website in the address bar and let chrome find the bookmarks itself?

I don't want to open bookmarks one by one, I open them all at the same time and go through them like that.

 

[Accoun]

That's how the good browsers do it now. Firefox doesn't for some reason which means a single tab can take down the whole thing. Safari does it too and I thank it for it.

Dunno. It never really worked neither for me nor my friend who uses Chrome as his main browser. In the end, it crashed the whole thing. Although that was a while ago, when Opera turned into Chrome and I looked for replacement.

 

[ROUGE_BLOCK]

Time to get back to that firefox, son.

 

[The Real Abed]

Dunno. It never really worked neither for me nor my friend who uses Chrome as his main browser. In the end, it crashed the whole thing. Although that was a while ago, when Opera turned into Chrome and I looked for replacement.

I dunno. I was force quitting tabs from the process manager all the time back then with no hiccups in my browsing. It just turned the tab into a sad tab and the world kept turning. Works the same way in Safari now too. I wouldn't dare use a browser that wasn't sandboxed like this as my main browser any more.

Which seems to just be Firefox these days. What a terribly outdated browser. My god. It shocks me every time I launch it.

 

[FiggyCal]

Chrome keeps defaulting to the metro version. I had to stop using it. But I guess I'm not missing much while using firefox.

 

[ChoklitReign]

Biggest lost function is basic alphabetizing bookmarks. It uses a very clumsy system that tries it for each bookmark - it blows. And it's a lot more work creating subfolders (create a folder, move to folder, move to folder...). And then there's the thumbnails and auto folders - extremely bad for porn hoarders (I know, Chrome, it's a long story). The UI is also way too big for desktops and high DPI devices. Fuck this, someone should make an extension to fix all this.

 

[VARIA]

So which is the lesser of evils in the browser world?

Waterfox?

 

[Stumpokapow]

I didn't know people still used bookmarks in the era of tabbed browsing.

<list of 500 open tabs>
ugh my browser is so slow

 

[Sai]

go to chrome://flags
search for Enable Enhanced Bookmarks -> Disabled, restart

Thank you!

This seemed like such a pointless change, and it looks like folks were already complaining about it months ago when it was being used in beta builds. If there was such overwhelmingly negative feedback over the new bookmarks manager, why would you leave it in? Thought that was the whole point of getting feedback from beta users... Well, that and bug reports.

 

[Aselith]

That hot sauce story is fucking legit lmao

http://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2vdwtw/

 

[Marion Cobretti]

I seriously hace no idea how you guys can have more than 3-4 tabs running at once.

Like, why? Boggles my mind that some of you have dozens running.

 

[Baron Doggystyle von Woof]

Fuck bookmarks, why does Chrome still has shitty font rendering?

 

[Altazor]

Sorry to bump this thread but... apparently they restored the bookmarks manager to what it was before? I had to restart Chrome and when I did - good ol' simple bookmarks. I'm happy about it, I thought the "enhanced" bookmarks were a pain in the ass, completely unintuitive.

 

[deltatheta]

Yeah, mine's back the way it was too.

Here's the announcement in the Chrome forum: https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/chrome/mhIX5LB23As

 

[Kadayi]

Sorry to necro a thread, but I figured someone here might know. A couple of weeks back I had a major sort out of my bookmarks in Chrome. Then today I open it up and its restored a whole bunch of deleted ones for some ass backwards reason. Anyone have this happen before? (I'm not logging in on other machines and I didn't import from an old bookmark file) and more importantly beyond 'don't use Chrome' is there any way of safeguarding it happening again? I don't want to spend an afternoon wading through everything again, only for this to happen two weeks down the line.

Thanks in anticipation of someone knowing the why.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Sorry to necro a thread, but I figured someone here might know. A couple of weeks back I had a major sort out of my bookmarks in Chrome. Then today I open it up and its restored a whole bunch of deleted ones for some ass backwards reason. Anyone have this happen before? (I'm not logging in on other machines and I didn't import from an old bookmark file) and more importantly beyond 'don't use Chrome' is there any way of safeguarding it happening again? I don't want to spend an afternoon wading through everything again, only for this to happen two weeks down the line.

Thanks in anticipation of someone knowing the why.

I had a similar issue where it was pulling my old sync data. I had to go to https://www.google.com/settings/chrome/sync and completely reset it. Luckily I had another machine with my current setup that hadn't been messed with. So I logged into that and synced its data to propagate to my main device. I don't know if that'll help you. I've begun keeping backups of my setups because I'm worried of future SNAFUs.

 

[Kadayi]

Ok Cheers dude I'll try that.