I do dislike certain things about Chrome, some annoy the bejesus out of me.
- Local FQDN lookups are skipped
If I hit F6 and type in “mis” in the URL bar, it tries to search Google for “mis”. I would prefer that it attempt to resolve mis.local first. There is no way that I know of to change this behavior. - No @require in userscripts
When writing complex GM scripts it’s nice to have the benefit of jquery. You can’t automatically include jquery in your scripts in Chrome like you can in FF’s GreaseMonkey. This is annoying. - Lacking in JS Whitelisting
In Firefox with the NoScript addon, I can selectively allow or deny Javascript for all relevant domains of the page I am on, temporarily or permanently. The deny-by-default options in Chrome give you icons to enable, but they enable for EVERYTHING on the whole page. If I visit some random site, I do not want akamai.com to run Javascript on my computer. I do not want the advertisers to run their own Javascript on my computer. This is how drive-by crap happens. I miss NoScript dearly. - Lacking in cookie Whitelisting
I am stringent with cookies the same way that I am with Javascript. Unfortunately the cookie filtering is just as lacking there, as well. I miss Extended Cookie Manager dearly. - Extensions in Chrome don’t run on the site unless you have JS enabled for the site
If you run an extension like Pwdhash and want to log in to a site without JS enabled, too bad. Pwdhash won’t hash your password unless you turn on JS for the site and all the other JS inserted on the page. None of the extensions will run on the site unless you enable JS for the site. - Lacking in extension whitelisting
Same gripe as Javascript. I miss NoScript dearly. - Lacking in Flash whitelisting
Same gripe as Javascript. I miss Flashblock and NoScript dearly. - Missing one of my favorite features: Snaplinks
I was telling you about the game earlier and how I opened 200 tabs at once. An extension would let me right-click and drag a box around every link that I wanted to open. This is a godsend in the Warring Factions game. I’m sure people with some prurient interests enjoy it as well. No parallel exists in Chrome, and I hate having to write shell scripts to iterate though probe IDs and pass the URL to Chrome. I miss Snaplinks dearly.
In conclusion, I think I will probably use Chrome for some things and Firefox for others. I may end up using FF exclusively again, depending on how Chrome progresses. If you’re listening, Google, I need better whitelisting.
Until next time!
-LightningCrash
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