2010-02-11
A short list of Chrome issues (beta 2)
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An update on the issues listed in December:
- You can’t invert open behind - on Safari command shift click opens in a new window behind the current one with command click opening in a new window in front/focus, whereas Chrome is hard-wired to do the opposite (and with tabs to boot)
- Tab moves between all link and form elements, not just form elements (Gmail does this on Safari now too. Boo!)
- There are no command key shortcuts to open bookmarks in the toolbar
- The combined text/title/URL completion in the “Omnibox” means you have to go too far into a URL to easily work around the lack of command key shortcuts
You can’t set a default font size, so sites that honour relative fonts (like delicious, and (in places) Twitter) now have Huge Idiot Typefaces- fixed, in Preferences > Under the Hood
While Chrome sensibly uses the keychain (so, like Camino, it can share usernames and passwords set up in Safari) it doesn’t offer to complete the username part, meaning more typing- this seems to be fixed too
- Crashes on pasting a rich text post from Tumblr back into Tumblr
- Crashes on importing my (admittedly huge) Safari history
On the other hand, I am pleased to see that a request for the zoom button to instead maximise has been rejected as “Invalid”.
