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kingandyI am now heartily using Google Chrome at work. (Well, I'm using something like five browsers[1] regularly, by nature of the industry, but Chrome is my idle browsing tool of choice.)
Recently I took the bold step of switching off the bookmarks toolbar - something I never really used (and indeed used to disable) before Firefox, but I have rather got used to opening a favourite with a single click (or even in a new tab, with a middle-mouse-button click).
Happily, the cunning folks at Google have arranged the 'new tab' window such that if you have the Bookmarks switched off, your bookmarks show up at the top, under their principle of "When you open a new tab you're making a statement of intent - you want to go somewhere." It is also a neat way of training people to open new tabs and close old ones, preventing the risk of ongoing memory leaks. So it's all still available, without even toggling the bookmarks bar on and off, and as part of your new and improved natural browsing methodology.
Now I basically have to decide whether the extra window space is worth one extra click...
[1] For those interested: Firefox 3, IE 7, IE 6, Google Chrome and Lynx, though Lynx is just for convenience when I'm in a shell and isn't part of our normal cross-browser testing. Paul (lead developer) also uses Safari.
Recently I took the bold step of switching off the bookmarks toolbar - something I never really used (and indeed used to disable) before Firefox, but I have rather got used to opening a favourite with a single click (or even in a new tab, with a middle-mouse-button click).
Happily, the cunning folks at Google have arranged the 'new tab' window such that if you have the Bookmarks switched off, your bookmarks show up at the top, under their principle of "When you open a new tab you're making a statement of intent - you want to go somewhere." It is also a neat way of training people to open new tabs and close old ones, preventing the risk of ongoing memory leaks. So it's all still available, without even toggling the bookmarks bar on and off, and as part of your new and improved natural browsing methodology.
Now I basically have to decide whether the extra window space is worth one extra click...
[1] For those interested: Firefox 3, IE 7, IE 6, Google Chrome and Lynx, though Lynx is just for convenience when I'm in a shell and isn't part of our normal cross-browser testing. Paul (lead developer) also uses Safari.
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Date: 2008-09-12 04:18 pm (UTC)On the whole I think the extra window space *is* usually worth the inconvenience - but when it isn't going to be for a period of time, the Ctrl+B toggle is simple enough.
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Date: 2008-09-12 05:43 pm (UTC)The wary can right-click / open all in new window.
I have however noticed that the middle-click open-in-new-tab functionality is a bit counterintuitive - if there's something with an onClick event, it is triggered as well as the newtab. Which I suppose is not entirely wrong...