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brad808:

--- Quote from: SNAAKE on June 15, 2012, 02:27:16 pm ---yeah and it zooms EVERYTHING. I dont want giant blurry pictures. just bigger text.

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You can adjust just the text size for all websites in the options. If you want to do it individually on the fly you can via an extension (add-on). Not all websites support zooming just text but the ones that do will work

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lilshawn:

--- Quote from: SNAAKE on June 15, 2012, 01:34:24 pm ---some of the flash content dont get along with chrome.

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Chrome handles Flash content. While other browsers call upon the Flash installation of the host system, Chrome includes an internal Flash installation. if Chrome gets confused and attempts to utilize both the OS installation of Flash and the internal Chrome installation of Flash. The result is serious browser lag, temporary lockup, and then a browser-wide crash of all active Flash instances.

Run Chrome. In the address bar, type about:plugins in the address bar. After you press enter you’ll be greeted with a list of all the plug-ins installed in Chrome (this is different than user-installed Extensions). Look down the list of plug-ins for the Flash entry. If the entry looks like "Flash (2 Files)" there is a very good chance the source of your Flash-related crashes is a conflict between the two.

hypernova:

--- Quote from: lilshawn on June 15, 2012, 03:52:13 pm ---Run Chrome. In the address bar, type about:plugins in the address bar. After you press enter you’ll be greeted with a list of all the plug-ins installed in Chrome (this is different than user-installed Extensions). Look down the list of plug-ins for the Flash entry. If the entry looks like "Flash (2 Files)" there is a very good chance the source of your Flash-related crashes is a conflict between the two.

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Heh, checked that in Opera just to see if it would work, and they have the same command usage.  Shows all plugins.

Can't remember, do other browsers have a recent history/trashcan like setup where you can reopen a tab you closed earlier?

lilshawn:

--- Quote from: hypernova on June 15, 2012, 06:47:31 pm ---
Heh, checked that in Opera just to see if it would work, and they have the same command usage.  Shows all plugins.

Can't remember, do other browsers have a recent history/trashcan like setup where you can reopen a tab you closed earlier?

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Chrome has an open last closed tab/open last closed window/recently closed

I frequently get all clicky and close windows i needed. opens right back up (even most time with entered text fields still filled in).

MonMotha:
In Firefox:  History->Recently Closed Tabs -or- right-click on the tab bar, wherever you have that, and hit "Undo close tab".

Firefox does dump basically everything but the URL the instant you close the tab, so it will "reload" the page when you re-open it.  Everything that was on the page before should be cached, but it'll hit the server to make sure everything's up to date, and it will re-render the page.


Chrome generally irks me with its UI choices, so I've stuck with Firefox.  The extension selection for Firefox is also quite nice.  Sadly, Firefox seems to be breaking more than they fix these days, and the dev team seems hell bent on emulating all the things I don't like about Chrome, so I may end up finding something else.  For now, I just disable all the new UI crap with every version (basically, my FF still looks like 4.0).  Chrome's javascript engine has been much faster on many common workloads, which is nice, though Firefox 13 did quite a bit to help with that.

I've found the Gecko engine to generally behave a little more like I'd expect it to when it comes to its CSS implementation, but that may be that I'm biased for having used it for over a decade (since at least "Mozilla Milestone 18"!).  Webkit (Chrome and Safari) seems to have a few quirks that do vary depending on which final product you use.  Opera seems to be on-par with Firefox in terms of behaving as expected.  Safari was still, last I checked, missing support for a few random things that Chrome, Firefox, and Opera were all supported (WOFF fonts, for example).

I'm told that IE10 is looking to actually be a passable browser, but anybody who's actually been using IE since 6 was actually new and current should probably have their head examined.

I don't have a ton of experience with Opera or Safari, but they seem to behave.  IE is the one I'm always having to hack pages up to work with, though I'll admit IE9 (and IE8, to a large degree) at least gets the basics right - it's just lacking a lot of modern eye candy support.

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