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Re:Four years with Google Chrome, and I'm never going back by benologist on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @01:54AM (#4473333)
Chrome's launching speed was amazing before SSDs made it so even Adobe couldn't completely fuck that up, and it's update mechanism is still great today. I'm ready for something new though.

These days the back button often seems to mean "redownload the whole page" which shits me just about every time I have to use it, and the address bar likes to just erase everything I've typed when I hit enter and then a few seconds later after it's done some stuff it'll put what I typed back.

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Re:Four years with Google Chrome, and I'm never going back by vegardx on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @06:09AM (#4473872)
The first releases for OSX was the exact opposite. It took ages to start up, and still, to this day, Chrome just feels more "right" on Windows than on OSX. Things are way better now, but the start up speed is still not on par with Linux and Windows, for some reason. Not that it actually matters, I rarely restart my Macbook.

I have the same frustration with the back buttom. I get it in the case of POSTed data, but couldn't they just differentiate on it based on current situation?

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Re:Four years with Google Chrome, and I'm never going back by mise on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @02:58AM (#4473471)
Come to think about it, that's true. Often I'd click back, and the page would fully reload, and not bring me back to the same scroll position.
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