Browser Wars
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- voiceof0
Not sure how they work in other browsers but I imagine many are standard. https://support.google.com/chrom…
- CygnusZero40
What year is it where we need to post 15 GIFs on a page? I mean really the 90s are over guys. Post youtube videos. We shouldnt need to even worry about the fact that chrome has a problem with a ton of gifs on a page because a ton of gifs on a page shouldnt be happening anyway.
- I dont even view that thread anymore because its out of control with those clowns in there.CygnusZero4
- Im not switching browsers for one thread. I like Chrome.CygnusZero4
- You seem angry. We have an entire thread of animated gifs, you should expect them here.i_monk
- your damn right im mad!CygnusZero4
- I like gifsmonospaced
- don't get angry at the world because your browser is not capable of handling a moving image.Miguex
- nb0
Youtube (or any video) will never replace the animated gif.
The animated gif stays around because it offers an experience that can't seem to be matched by video.
What year is it that we need to accept that a browser can't display a few images?
- lol experience? like what?CygnusZero4
- The nature of the animated gif (silent, looping, can't skip to different time, reduced frame rate & bit depth) often ends up funnier, cuter, or more clever than a video.nb
- ... funnier, cuter, or more clever than a video. If video could imitate the gif perfectly, the gif would naturally fade away. It hasn't.nb
- hasn't.nb
- youtube has ads, and that is an experience I hatemonospaced
- you can block adds with an extension. problem solved. what's the next question?Miguex
- oh yeah, theres a place for both, gufs and video because clearly they are not the same thing.Miguex
- I can stop ads from playing before the video starts? I did not know that.monospaced
- Yes, but even the best adblockers occasionally let some ads through. Ads aside, videos are not gifs!nb
- npduggins0
I tried Safari again after a while with Chrome but found it really annoying as when you hit CMD + T in Chrome you can start your search straight off in the URL / search window. In Safari you have to manually click in which is no where near as easy!
- weird, it doesn't do that heremonospaced
- Yeah, mine goes straight into the Address/Search Bar. Maybe because I have my "new tab" pref set to "Blank Page"?nb
- oh nice! working now :)
npduggins
- i_monk0
http://lifehacker.com/turn-on-tr…
Former Mozilla software engineer Monica Chew and Computer Science researcher Georgios Kontaxis took a look at the top 200 news sites (according to Alexa) and found a median 44% reduction in page load time, as well as a 39% reduction in data usage when the optional Tracking Protection is turned on.
- ernexbcn0
@npduggins CMD + L is your friend
- i_monk0
Seriously?
- sem0
- docpoz0
I log in with my Prodigies
and message with my Entourage
I plays da Sim City
- bainbridge0
First world problems.
- nb0
We might as well get used to the idea that we'll need to switch browsers once every couple years or so. It's the nature of the browser wars. No big deal.
Gave up on Chrome a year or two ago because it had been awful on OSX. Slow, huge drain on the battery, plugins didn't work right.
Using Safari now, it's great, again. Firefox for developing/testing.
- ukit20
I prefer Safari but find it's hard to switch from Chrome because the web inspector is better. First world problems.
- iCanHazQBN0
All browsers currently suck, and I don't know why they can't fix these obvious issues.
I hate how Chrome tabs get smaller and smaller the more you have open, until you can't see what tabs they are and you're forced to click through each one just so you can see what it is.
Safari is worse. Loooong stretched out tabs, and if you have a lot of them open it created a dropdown menu to the right.
Dammit, just have tabs all the same size and allow people to flick left and right. Works nicely with a Magic Mouse. Not sure about other mice. You'd think Safari would do this.
- Ctrl-tab goes to next tab. Ctrl-shift-tab goes to previous tab.nb
- I don't understand. Do you mean Command? All this does is open previous tabs... like a History function.iCanHazQBN
- LOL. i just upgraded to new Safari. They added a left-right scroll function. Someone was listening! :)iCanHazQBN