Someone PLEASE explain why chrome keeps doing this
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the next version of Firefox will probably remove this configuration option altogether in order to route everything you type through ask.com malware.
Fortunately you can fix this by using another browser.
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That's not an ellipsis.That's clearly a .
Only for people with a truly bizarre form of color blindness.
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Unfortunately the options are just as bad, as they're all regressing in shit ways.
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Fortunately you can fix this by using any browser.
FTFYat this point i'm really hesitant to call FF a browser anymore. I'm not sure what it has become but i'm pretty sure a browser isn't it.
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Well, they abstracted the colours away, just like they did with the poor hamburger ...
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route everything you type through ask.com malware
As far as I know that only happens every time anybody updates Flash or Java without going on a checkbox hunt first.
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Which has of course reminded me of the REAL reason why chrome keeps doing that: it's because the entire computing industry is inexorably going to shit, as more and more "smart" features get pushed into more and more products in an optimism-driven but ultimately doomed attempt to build consumer devices less stupid than their decreasingly literate developers. See also: CADT development paradigm. Now GTFO my lawn.
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i so much preferred the old way, where it would always try to navigate to the url provided and if that failed, then it would search the term(s). Now half the time I type a url and forget the http:// in front because it used to be motherfucking assumed that you're doing an http request since it's a fucking web browser... and now it tries to search my local dns reference using google instead of navigating to the local webpage.
ironically, navigating is exactly what it's doing to @matches that he doesn't want.
Lesson? OMNISEARCH IS FUCKING TERRIBLE AT READING MINDS.
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As far as I know that only happens every time anybody updates Flash or Java without going on a checkbox hunt first.
It could be worse. It could be the (bad word) (Finnish words) (bad word) stuff that Adobe does every other time they want you to update Flash Player, where they send you to their site and you have to uncheck a box to avoid getting some toolbar or other, or some McAfee gobble. So far I've managed to avoid installing these, but it's getting tedious.And with all the crap that Firefox has taken up doing, I've switched to Pale Moon (OK, it's still Firefox, but it has had a lot of the intrusive crap removed), and I occasionally give serious consideration to using IE in future. Maybe on that basis, I should put *myself * in front of the GAU-8, right after I use it to finish off the developers of Firefox.
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Well, they abstracted the colours away, just like they did with the poor hamburger ...
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with all the crap that Firefox has taken up doing, I've switched to Pale Moon (OK, it's still Firefox, but it has had a lot of the intrusive crap removed),
You realize that Pale Moon is less secure, due to not keeping up Every Six Weeks and jettisoning OCSP, and that everything it claims to remove you can just turn off in Firefox's settings, some of which is off by default anyway?
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Ok, this is fucking disgusting looking.
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And after that, Graham's Number?
I've been wondering how many digits there are in the number of digits in Graham's number, but I haven't Googled it yet.
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You realize that Pale Moon is less secure, due to not keeping up Every Six Weeks and jettisoning OCSP, and that everything it claims to remove you can just turn off in Firefox's settings, some of which is off by default anyway?
OCSP isn't all it's cracked up to be, and has been in there since before v 24.4.2 (April 2014). And keeping up with E6W is only as useful as E6W, and that has limitations related to "don't bother me with that again!" responses from users. I'm usually busy using my browser when the "update me" requests appear, so they take second place to whatever I'm doing.Re: off-by-default etc.: can you turn off Australis?
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I've been wondering how many digits there are in the number of digits in Graham's number, but I haven't Googled it yet.
More than just a few...
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Re: off-by-default etc.: can you turn off Australis?
Don't be helpless. And Australis is not a privacy issue -- despite being incredibly stupid and the product of Faaborg's "Let's make everything the same, only different!" brainworms -- so it's outside Pale Moon's usual purview.
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ceil(log10(Graham's Number))
is that it? am i doing maths?
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Snort--so what you're really saying is "keep using FF because with a bunch of work you can make it look and act less stupid, which is what Pale Moon already does."
Thanks!
Or you could just switch away from mozilla-based browsers entirely.
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It's like Firefox ESR with the old UI (well, plus stuff)!
And not a wannabe "I can do it better" fork like Palemoon.
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It's like Firefox ESR with the old UI (well, plus stuff)!And not a wannabe "I can do it better" fork like Palemoon.
I have hated the Netscape rendering engine since approximately beta 0.9. The UI cruft others complain about is, to me, a secondary issue. Almost nothing could make me switch back to FF, Seamonkey, or any other Netscape-derived browser.
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Oh whoops, replied to the wrong guy!
I meant to reply to @Steve_The_Cynic, not you.
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Oh whoops, replied to the wrong guy!I meant to reply to @Steve_The_Cynic, not you.
I still feel that way, and strongly enough about it to repeat it.
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FTFY
at this point i'm really hesitant to call FF a browser anymore. I'm not sure what it has become but i'm pretty sure a browser isn't it.
Memory stress tester.
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That's easy to explain. # is a special character in URLs. Chrome is doing this replacement:
example.com#anchor -> example.com/#anchor
Whether it should do that or not in the specific situation you gave is another question.
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Almost nothing could make me switch back to FF, Seamonkey, or any other Netscape-derived browser.
Using FF is the only way for me to attack @ben_lubar's gyfcat DoS posts. For some reason, it freezes my tab in chrome, but FF handles them no problem.
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Using FF is the only way for me to attack @ben_lubar's gyfcat DoS posts. For some reason, it freezes my tab in chrome, but FF handles them no problem.
coughIEcough
I suppose I should say for the sake of pendantry that I will use FF if required--for example, at my current job, I'm partially involved in a major project to make our site compatible in other browsers than IE5. Obviously for testing purposes I have to use FF. They haven't figured out how to make me put it on my computer, though, so on the rare occasions I have to use it, I log in to a different one.
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Also, oh Discurse no, what did you you do to my markdumb?
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Whether it should do that or not in the specific situation you gave is another question.
Entertainingly, in beta 38, I wasn't getting the results Matches was. I saw C# in the onebar or whatever stupid name it is called, and the dropdown had c# and then c/# and then a bunch of other stuff
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Fortunately you can fix this by using another browser.
True, but I like (please hide your revulsion) Firefox. I also use Chrome, and tend to switch between them. For instance, Chrome seems to maintain responsiveness when I'm crawling video sites like Youtube, whereas FF still occasionally eats itself. I can't blame it, though, since I can have 800 billion tabs open in it and it doesn't choke, unless 20 of them are Youtube.
I only really threw in the snark about them removing the configuration option because it's happened to a few friends. So far, FF's "development" hasn't actually changed my workflow much. I still use it for my general browsing and for web development. Until I open the dev tools or visit chromeexperiments, Chrome and Firefox are pretty much the same browser to me.
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Ooh, I like that image. I've been looking for years with one of a black panther with icicles on its whiskers. I don't know how that would actually look but I like the idea of it. I might swipe their pic, tho.
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True, but I like (please hide your revulsion) Firefox.
I don't generally mind if people use it. I realize it's as good as things get, so it's valid for people to use it. I just don't want to have to myself.
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FF has NoScript which is an amazing tool to make the internet a better place for yourself easily. Which is the main reason why it's my main browser at home.
I mostly use Chrome at work, though, for some reason.
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I used to get very annoyed at Adobe's stupid updaters until I found Ninite. Then Adobe strong-armed the Ninite folks into removing support for Flash Player, and I got very very annoyed. So I wrote a script.
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can you turn off Australis?
No, but you can calm it down to an acceptable degree with the Classic Theme Restorer and Status-4-Evar extensions. I played with PaleMoon and liked it, but have stuck with Firefox/Iceweasel because I was unconvinced that PaleMoon's development would remain sustainable as Mozilla gets more serious about removing underlying toolkit features that Australis doesn't use any more.
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Chrome and Firefox are pretty much the same browser to me.
I have always found (oh fuck off Discourse toaster pop-up, I'll write as many fucking replies as I fucking well feel like, and it's not easier for me to read one big reply with multiple topics so you're wrong again, Atwood) Chrome's text rendering unbearably ugly, and only ever use it for watching videos.
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This is on Ubuntu, so there's probably a platform-specific thing going on, but other than the screwed up byteblocks, I can't tell the difference. I'll have to try this on Windows when I'm at home.
[EDIT] I should add that I was not logged in in Chrome.
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I'm not totally sure that's accurate - I've had that problem with IE, but Chrome and Firefox both seem to resolve a obscure intranet name like "je-d-002" fine... However, it may be dependent on if the name can be resolved... Not completely sure.
EDIT: that's a response for
@mott555 said:The thing is broken though. If I want to go to http://some-intranet-machine:8080/ most of the time both Chrome and Firefox decide to web search that instead of using the legitimate address I provided, and intranet browsing becomes frustrating and nearly impossible depending on the browser's mood. There's a search bar 8 pixels away from the Awesome Bar, I don't see why the Awesome Bar needs to do both.
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Win8.1:
Yup, Chrome fails.
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I've been wondering how many digits there are in the number of digits in Graham's number, but I haven't Googled it yet.
You can't write that down. Or the number of digits in the number of digits in the number of digits. Or the number of digits of that.One "easy" way to describe Graham's number is with Knuth's up-arrow notation; a↑b. a↑b is defined to equal ab. But unlike other operators, you can chain arrows together to write something like a↑↑b, which has the same relationship to a↑b as a↑b (or ab) has to a*b. And we all know how fast exponential growth compares to multiplication. And a↑↑↑b has that same relationship with a↑↑b.
Well, Graham's number is 3↑↑...↑3 where the number of 3s is just unbelievably incredibly enormously huge. The number of digits of that is log10 of that. But that doesn't even begin to make the slightest bit of a hint of a dent. Nor does taking log of that. Or log of that, or log of that.
From Wikipedia:
The magnitude of this first term1, _g1_, is so large that it is practically incomprehensible, even though the above display is relatively easy to comprehend. Even _n_, the mere _number of towers_ in this formula for _g1_, is far greater than the number of Planck volumes (roughly 10185 of them) into which one can imagine subdividing the observable universe. And after this first term, still another 63 terms remain in the rapidly2 growing _g_ sequence before Graham's number _G = g64_ is reached.
1 _g1_ is _3↑↑↑↑3_; _g2_ is _3↑↑...↑3_ where there are _g1_ ↑s; _g3_ is _3↑↑...↑3_ where the number of ↑s is _g2_, etc.2 "rapidly growing" is about the understatement of ever.
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And certainly not preferable to FF.
The funny thing is, when it's not off taking a nap mid-render, IE11 is pretty good. Yeah, it doesn't have extensions, but supposedly IE12 will support them, somehow.
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Yup, Chrome fails.
Interesting--I do NOT see that behavior (did you mean anything other than the misalignment of the main text?) Chrome has had weird rendering issues with fonts in the past but it seems like they've long since fixed those.
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I'm an idiot. Changing the default chrome font to a proper font fixes it.
EDIT: Oh, flabdablet's name sticks into the avatar?
COOL.But that's because I had my Chrome window at a narrow width.
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EDIT: Oh, flabdablet's name sticks into the avatar?COOL.
But that's because I had my Chrome window at a narrow width.
I love that we were both pointing out different flaws in the same pic.
You must have had the window pretty narrow to cause it to do that. I generally leave mine at about 1200px or so; wide enough that very few sites scroll.
What font were you using? I have mine set to Segoe UI, but I don't know if that was the default. Segoe UI is a very nice clean readable sans serif font; I think it's the current Windows default font.