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After having switched to Chrome I miss three things from FF: FireBug, TreeView tabs and the awesomebar. The awesomebar searches through my browsing history in a way that feels way superior to Chrome. I can see that Chrome tries to do the same but it doesn't work nearly as well. In Firefox, I feel that if I can remember something from a page I have visited, I can find it. In Chrome, I have to re-google it.

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> Firebug

I used to feel the same way, but after I made a conscious effort to learn the Webkit developer tools in Chrome, I have to say that it much easier to use than Firebug, looks nicer (even on Linux), and feels faster. You should give it a try.

I hate it on mac solely because of the font, non anti aliased fonts look plain offensive on a mac.

chrome: http://i.min.us/idxbzo.png firebug: http://i.min.us/idx95s.png

Don't be bashin' our Monaco 11pt.

Chrome's behavior is actually WebKit's behavior, and WebKit is developed by Apple. Open up a default terminal.app session: same font.

that doesn't make look any less ugly :P I changed the settings on my terminal.app long ago, antialiased monaco 13 <3

I can see that Chrome tries to do the same but it doesn't work nearly as well.

It doesn't. And it's so very unfortunate, because it seems like it could: my Chrome installation currently stores 1 GB of data as "History Index 2010-xx". For what? I don't know.

Excellent point. My C:\ partition of Windows 7 is just barely 15GB and Windows takes almost 90% of it. The remaining 10% is almost used by Chrome. Whopping 1.5 GB for 6 months of history!! What the heck it's storing there? Comparatively, my Firefox's 4 years history is stored in a 85MB file.

For anyone who has doubts check your AppData folder in Windows. This is a moot point considering the storage points available nowadays, but still i have no explanation why Chrome is taking so much space. I had to use a portable version of Chrome to make it not install itself into the User directories deep inside the Windows system folders.

du -hs ~/.config/google-chrome 89M /home/cole/.config/google-chrome

Hm.

Since Chrome uses sqlite to store data, you can use something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/ to poke around in those databases if you're curious.

>For what? I don't know.

Full text indexing of your history: press C-h and search.

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