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Google Eyeing 10% Market Share For Chrome.

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>While I think I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t like Chrome

I have and they aren't always firefox extension users.

What specifically didn't they like? I'm sure you can find someone to dislike just about anything.

Chome slows to a crawl when you have a lot of tabs open >70 in my personal experience

That's a lot of tabs. But yes, I've noticed that as well.

i love the fact that how innocently you mention >70 tabs

yeah please give me a real use case for 70+ tabs that doesn't involve a PHD research paper :)

TVTropes. (Or Everything2, or Wikipedia, or...) Basically, using the tab bar as a "to read next" queue as you spider a heavily linked graph. The real solution to this, though, isn't reducing memory usage, but rather avoiding preloading tabs opened in the background once you hit a certain threshold.

It also fails to display >70 tabs in a single window, depending on screen resolution.

No way of toggling images, no easy control of individual site settings, no popup/ad blocking. No way of editing the visited sites or bookmarks.

Doesn't Chrome automatically block popups?

Definitely. It's a standard browser feature nowadays.

I think the biggest problem was the simplicity most of these people have bookmarks and a lot of them and wanted to have similar functionality... even I think the way chrome did bookmarks is kind of wierd.

People are used to the old way of browsing, this is why so many still use things like aol and chrome kind of just jumped the gun right into what they think is next gen.

Overall chrome was okay in my opinion but I have had so many people ask me if chrome/mozilla was malware and such at least google is starting to market chrome.

I hate how the tabs don't open at the end. IE7/8 does that too, and there doesn't appear to be a way to fix it.

Really? Chrome tabs behave exactly how I've always wanted tabs to behave. Related tabs stay together.

IE8 does one step further. It colorizes related tabs.

No Firebug. No grease monkey. No Adblock plus. No delicious toolbar. Etc etc. (And too minimalistic for my tastes.)

I would also add tree style tab.

10% they say? And internal projections are even higher? This sounds like a use for corporate prediction markets to me. I'd bet against that.

At present Chrome has 2.84% market share. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qp...

It sounds like a minor thing, but I hate when I highlight text in chrome, right click and select to search, it opens the new tab in the forefront. I want it in the background like Firefox does.

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