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How can people choose chrome over safari when chrome needs two taps to get to a bookmark and has its buttons at the top of the screen?
The slide from the edges thing is nice when you have two or three tabs open. When there's a lot of tabs it's about as useful as safari's tab view, which in turn is much more useful than chrome's overlapping tabs. They might as well have made it just text based.
Tabs should be implemented like on the ipad and gridtab for safari on the iphone anyway.
Safari is so freaking annoying in that it pops up that useless screen that you have to close unless you already have a web page loaded.
Chrome's tabs are far more functional and involve a lot less finger movement that Safari's.
Oh, and did I mention the Wonderbar? That's the biggest glaring omission of Safari.
Safari is a relic now. We have a true successor.
BTW, is there a way to make Chrome the default browser? I'm thinking Cydia might have something since it's not something that's normally possible.
For whatever reason going to gizmodo.com freezes safari really badly. Anyone else? I'm talking about the desktop version of gizmodo
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This has got to be a different strokes thing man, because I really don't see it like you do. Ok, the swipe from the edges trick is very cool, no argument there, but its advantages decrease as the number of tabs increases. I mean, if you need to go from tab two to tab eight, you might as well tap the tab button. Tab view itself is inefficient on both safari and chrome. All browsers should display miniatures of open tabs in a grid as far as I'm concerned, so that you can get to any tab with two taps, and without swiping.
By wonderbar you mean the url bar that doubles as a search field, right? It's a wash. As an example, if I type poker in safari's url field it takes me to poker.com. If I type poker in safari's search field it takes me to a web search on poker in google, bing or yahoo. If I type poker in chrome's url bar it lets me choose from a number of websites and search results, requiring just as many taps as safari. And an extra tap if the result you're looking for is obscured by the keyboard, requiring you to touch the screen once more.
Like I said, the only thing that chrome has on safari is swiping from the edges to get to the next or previous tab. Which is more than offset by the fact that safari's bookmarks are accessible by touching the screen once, and that its controls and buttons are at the bottom of the screen.
I do realize that personal preference plays a significant role here, but please don't act as if safari is a relic now, and we have a true successor. Because it isn't and we don't.
I'm a Chrome for desktop user, so I like the syncing and I do like the combo search/URL bar, but I seem to get a slight lag with Chrome.
Not sure what's up with that.
Not sure what's up with that.
I'm not going to claim that Chrome's tab system is the ideal system, it probably would be better if it showed little pictures, but at least it does reduce the amount of swiping needed over Safari's. So maybe less bad.
Yes, the one single bar. But the upside is that you avoid typing the wrong thing is the wrong one, or a very awkward sequence of buttons to switch from one to the other if you realize you are in the wrong one. That's the one feature that made me switch to Chrome without hesitation (plus there's really no lock-in on mobile, since there's no bookmarks and few saved logins unlike the desktop).
Safari's bookmark thing is SO ANNOYING. It pops up every time you open the darn thing. Just let me type! I know where I'm going!
Chrome may not be perfect, but it's a HUGE step ahead of Safari. I'd say Chrome is the nail in Safari's coffin. I would have used Dolphin all along if it weren't for a fatal flaw in the way that Dolphin (doesn't) handle stored passwords.