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Nope.
Funny thing, it was actually removed from Firefox for a few days because of memory limitations in Microsoft's C++ compiler and was re-added a few days later.
Tried Opera? When my other browsers start playing up, I normally just open up Opera and browse away.
If I can get shit like no(t)script, adblocker, and stylish I'll switch today. This waiting for cache thing used to be maybe once a week, but now its every fucking day.
Have you at any point thought to yourself "Hmm, two world class browsers very few other people have an issues with, maybe it's my system?".
Seriously, when your system starts blue screening, it's something WAY deeper than Chrome. Bad RAM is usually the first thing you check for, then go from there. I would also check your video card, as both Firefox and Chrome do some hardware acceleration.
e: I realized that first line sounded really snarky when I meant it to be jokey...so here's my confirmation: Read that in a jokey voice, not a snarky one.
I don't bluescreen when gaming or when watching VLC. A crash always happens the same way. In firefox I'll have a few tabs going and maybe some flash video. It will hang, screen goes white, and I can let it bluescreen or reset. In Chrome I'll get the waiting for cache, it hangs, if I ctrl alt delete the screen goes black. If I just wait it bluescreens every time. I'm not disagreeing with you either. I strongly believe there is something wrong with this motherboard. I have no intention of keeping it, as Asus went very wrong on this one, but I can't rebuild just yet. I've tested my memory and both sticks seem fine, I do believe one or both of the channels might be iffy however. One thing that does seem to always be a common factor is that flash video is playing in a tab when i crash. I do full regular scans for viruses and malware.
edit: also google that 'waiting for cache' bug and you'll find that many more than "very few" people have a similar problem as me with Chrome. Google knows about it as well and thus far has been unable to fix it.
I could fix this in Firefox by deleting my profile (not sure why), but I don't think Chrome uses profiles. Either way, it's not the end of the world, but it's fairly annoying how slow it can be at times. The forums themselves can take 10+ seconds to respond (not load, respond) but that may be just them and not Chrome.
Also it's 2012, why is there 64-bit version of Chrome? Come the fuck on, Google!
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And there are 64-bit versions of Chrome, unless you use Windows
Yeah, it's not all the time, which makes me think it's on the board's end and not mine. Right now they're loading fast enough.
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This, alongside Chrome's tendency to break Unicode support for languages besides what you've selected, has caused me to drop it until I can solve at least one of these issues. Anyone know what might cause this?
Hopefully they can survive that long with almost no one using their browser on computers. I've heard their biggest market share is their browser for mobiles anyway.
They had a big presence at Computex 2011--I didn't even realize Opera Software was a corporation, rather than a brand name. Even had booth babes, I think.
But usage still isn't anywhere near great, which is a shame because it's a fantastic browser and all other browsers are built upon the concepts that they first pioneered.
Urgh, seriously, it's your system. Probably the RAM (or RAM channel as you have realized).
VLC doesn't hog memory - streaming video is an activity with a very fixed memory footprint.
Web-browsing - with multiple tabs - is not. It will aggressively use more and more memory because you have more and more things IN memory.
So what's happening is your filling up your memory to the point it's bad - either getting onto the second stick, or second channel or whatever, and the errors are building up until a pointer overwrites kernel memory and then that's the end of the game.
The other thing to note is flash video buffers to your computer - and generally not to disk. That's why you're seeing it most commonly with flash, because the buffering rapidly fills up your RAM.
Probably before that, back in the Mozilla days.
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Yeah, even if there's a bug in Chrome, no browser bugs alone will BLUESCREEN a modern machine. Vista and W7 are very good at keeping the system up.
Checking it out, it does look like Mozilla's browser hit in November of 2004, so yeah, a bit before. I think it was free back then.
Then again, it wasn't very good back then, from what I remember.
Yay plugins! There's some hitch between Flash and my 64-bit Intel GMA drivers so that after I've been watching streaming video for a while, the next time I click the play/pause button or fullscreen/restore the video, my graphics driver locks up, and I have to log out or switch users to make it go back to normal. Nothing other than flash does it.
I also used to be able to lock up Chrome hard by playing a game that used the Unity3D plugin and switching to a different tab.
There is quite likely something hardware related going on, but I wouldn't be surprised if Flash was the catalyst triggering it. Try disabling all your plugins for a while and seeing what happens.
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Eh, depends on the events I suppose.
Mosiac was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in 1992 and was officially released in 1993. The leader of the team that created Mosaic, Marc Andreessen, went on to found Mosaic Communications Corporation which later became Netscape Communications Corporation, which produced Netscape Navigator in 1994 under the development of many of the original Mosaic authors, however it intentionally shared no code with Mosaic.
A company called Spyglass licensed the technology and all trademarks of Mosaic from the NCSA, producing their own browser but never using any of the Mosaic source code and in 1995, Microsoft licensed the Spyglass Mosaic. They modified it and it became Internet Explorer. Though as of IE7, it no longer contains any Mosaic code.
Opera was begun as a research project in 1994 at Telenor, a Norwegian Telecommunications company. In 1995 it branched out into a separate company known as Opera Software ASA, and the first publicly released version of Opera was 2.0 released in 1996. Opera 8.5 was the first version to be release completely free in 2005, at which point primary financial support came from Google under contract to become the default search engine in Opera.
Very interesting, some stuff in there I didn't know.
FireFox has a cool thing called FireBug or whatever. It lets you edit the html/css of a website and make the changes visible as you type it so you can see exactly what effect the code is having on the page. Is there anything like that for Chrome by chance?
Selecting an element from the tree will let you see all rules that are being applied to that element (and sometimes overridden by other rules).
Since switching I've found that I generally prefer Chrome. Although there are lots of extensions available for Chrome (many incorrect statements about that on this thread), I find I need fewer extensions because Chrome has the features I need built in. I use IE Tab Multi for those sites that are still stuck on being IE-only, but I find that I need that extension much less as many sites that didn't work in Firefox work fine in Chrome.
However, I am having a performance problem with Chrome that's really turning into a showstopper. When I have multiple tabs open, the entire browser freezes while any one tab is loading. It's incredibly annoying and really slows down my pace of work. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this, but it is a documented issue (see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31758). I can't go back to Firefox because of the certificate issue, so at this point Chrome is the least bad option. I'm just hoping that Google can fix it, at which point I would happily endorse Chrome over FF.
I started using Opera when it became free. I wish more people used it. I can't recommend it enough though most people I know use Chrome. I guess that's a step up from using an outdated version of IE...
Chrome breaks unicode support in Windows (and everything running through Windows) once you visit a website using Unicode. After visiting one, (Pixiv.net, for example), you can view website just fine, but both the tab text and everything else in Windows with unicode is reduced to useless blocks.
Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? No other browser--Firefox, IE, Opera--seems to have this problem.
Right click on a page on the domain you want a user CSS for, click Edit Site Preferences and go to the Display tab. It's at the bottom with a browse button to find the sheet you want.
(Chrome also makes the entire machine go slowly, but that's generally when I've got 60+ tabs open and it's hitting swap like there's no tomorrow.
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