Just to clarify, I mean Google Crome and here’s why: I was poking around in the Internets, clicked a link and was greeted with “Access Forbidden – You’ve been temporarily banned.. because you were hitting the site too quickly.” Now, I know Google Chrome is quite swift of a beast but to be so fast that sites mistake you as a bot and ban you? (even being very temporarily)
Ok. So, it’s fast. Now, if it only would work. Case in point: Can’t seem to be able to add the screenshot to this very post, of the “Access Forbidden” -page, in Wordpress, as the Add an Image -button is only giving me an empty frame. And it’s hardly the first time it fumbles and fails, as I would think other heavy Chrome users would know. Does all the speed justify the fact that it’s still a spork; awkward tool that kinda does many things but just fails. I guess it does since I’m still using it, it’s just too frustrating to find yourself in situations where the tool of your choice just doesn’t cut it. …nor even nibble.
Aaaaand, there we go. Fired up Firefox and successfully added the picture.
Welcome to the small things, covering the small things in the area of user interfaces that without no apparent reason (at least usually), one way or another hinder the user experience.
Todays receipe: Google Chrome + lots of open tabs + missing title bar
I’m a power user of tabs (like everyone who has seen any of my browser windows open knows), which means that many times in a day, all of my tabs are so small that only the first letter of the page title is shown, like so:
Now, you would get the same kind problem with any browser, but that is not the problem I’m referring to. The problem becomes evident when you are say, reading a longer article and you want to check what was the title of the article, or have lots of pages open from the same site and have to distinguish the difference between them. Normally (Firefox, IE and whatnot) you would just glance the title bar of the window and be done with it, this method however doesn’t work with Google Chrome since it’s lacking the title bar. What you have to do in Chrome is you either look around the page, to find a clue about the title of the page or hover the mouse pointer over the tab for few seconds, until the title appears as a tooltip.
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