So, what do I "hate" about Google Chrome?

Well, as I have mentioned earlier, "hate" is a strong word. But then that's probably a good/captivating headline :)

I love Google Chrome for a lot of reasons, including its speed, clean tabbed interface, the process sandboxing of each tab, ...

The one thing that makes me irk and my blood boil at times is the fact that it makes me think someone in their design team probably wanted to do something different and ended up changing the sizes of the minimize, restore and (especially) close buttons at the top right corner. Quite often I almost end up clicking the close button instead of the restore or minimize, thanks to the size differences between this and other applications - on Windows XP.

Do you use Chrome? Do you find this irritating? Is there a reason this is designed this way?!! This probably is one reason, but I definitely find this appearance/behavior troublesome - maybe no fault of Google, but wish there was an easy way to resolve this.

Suggestions? Apart from upgrading Vista / to Windows 7 / Linux?

Why do Google Chrome 8 & 7 co-exist?

So, why do Google Chrome 8 & 7 seem to co-exist, each of them taking about 150MB space?

Firefox 3.5 released

In case you didn't notice, Mozilla just released Firefox 3.5. Go upgrade!

Youtube on my mobile (nokia 6233)

Thanks to Opera Mini, I learnt that I could see YouTube videos on my mobile (Nokia 6233), via m.youtube.com.

P.S: Not that I'm a big fan of youtube videos, it's just that it's possible and convenient now.

Need RSS Toolbar on Firefox

What I need is a toolbar on Firefox that's just like the bookmark/status/... toolbar and is separate from the tabs interface. That way I can subscribe to RSS feeds and see them within the browser window, but don't have to be within a page/tab.

Something on the lines of Gmail's Web Clips, but as a toolbar within firefox.

Anyone know of anything like this ?

Update: Found RSS Ticker (add-on to Firefox)

And, I'm back with Firefox

Inspite of trying and liking Google's Chrome, I'm back with Firefox - at least for the time being. It's been about two weeks since I made the switch back. Primary reason being that I want the first week/month nasty security bugs to be found and resolved.

Back to the wonderful beast called Firefox

Call it a state of mind !

Back in Dec-2006, I'd written about my problems with Firefox. However, I just couldn't convince myself to stay with IE as my default browser for a long time (Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006).

Have switched back to Firefox. Did a complete uninstall, wiped out install directories, nuked the profile directories. Reinstall has worked like a charm. No more 100% CPU utilization/freeze problems, albeit it will still be a nasty memory hog. This time, I'm making it a point not to go firefox extension crazy :)

I must admit that I didn't do proper debugging earlier. While I did do a complete uninstall, deleted installation directories, I didn't bother about the profile directory. Guess that's where the problem was (what/why it was, I don't know).

Glad to have a "normal life" now :)

Problem with Firefox ?

Ever since I was on FF version prior to v2.0.0.1 (and now on it), I've been seeing strange problems with Firefox (on Windows XP SP2). CPU utilization shoots to 100% quite frequently for no apparent reason (while doing plain scrolling, opening new tab, etc). FF freezes and fails to respond for a brief period during such times. I've got so sick of it that I've almost effectively migrated to (gasp!) Internet Explorer. My only "consolation" is that I'm using the "savior" Yahoo! Toolbar for tabbed browsing.

Don't think the FF problem is related to virus/trojans, however, who knows ?!!! Need to run a full scan on my machine. Probably now is as good a time as any else.

Lemme know if you've heard/come-across this and/or know of a solution to the problem (other than migrating to IE, Opera, ...) :)