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I'm not sure why anyone would leave the ABP button in the address bar in the first place. I could understand it maybe in Firefox, but it looks so weird in Chrome's clean style.

Not even sure how useful it is either. You can just allow sites like Gaf through the whitelist page and that's that.

Does it really detract from Chrome's clean style? It just looks like part of the UI to me, along with the Bookmark star.

Also, having it in the address bar allows for quick enabling/disabling on sites as well as access to the Easy Create Filter feature.
 
Does it really detract from Chrome's clean style? It just looks like part of the UI to me, along with the Bookmark star.

Also, having it in the address bar allows for quick enabling/disabling on sites as well as access to the Easy Create Filter feature.

To me? Yes it does a little bit. I just don't see the point of it.

I don't care if people like having it there, but I just personally don't, and don't really think it's all that useful.
 
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got a million other tabs up in another window. errr.
 
I'll never understand why people do this. Which one is easier to read?

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I think it's a pain to read the first one and I don't even have a wide screen.

Doesn't annoy me to read in wide screen at all, actually the example you gave there I would much prefer the widescreen one so that there isn't that many lines. But more importantly I get full res pics and stuff like that which I can't in windowed mode. Got two screens though so I can play football manager, watch video or whatever at the other one at the same time though.
 
Two things mainly, needing a sync key is annoying, and it doesn't sync add ons across computers.
The key is annoying, but it is just a 2-step verification process to improve security.

Sync'ing addons is coming on Fx 11 (you could already sync'ing addons options before). But it only works for extensions installed from addons.mozilla.org and since some extensions require restarting, it's not gonna be as seamless as Chrome.
 
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Before you ask, I've been working on a 3D Raycasting game engine for the past month and a half if you couldn't tell. As well as playing a lot of Hexen and DOOM for research.

I keep Chrome in Fullscreen on Lion for easy swipe access. I just wish they would get rid of that damn "curtain" icon in the corner. It's ugly and obtrusive and at first I thought it was a bug, but it switches Fullscreen between new Lion mode with the toolbar showing and old fullscreen mode where the toolbar disappears. I never use the old mode and don't need the damn button.

I've noticed the FaceBook Notifications extension I use and the 1Password extensions both use an icon style that matches the rest of the toolbar. I wish all my extensions did that. It looks nice.

I keep a clock up there because of the way Lion fullscreen works. No biggie. Might make my own that looks nicer eventually.

I also use ReadItLater a lot. Every time I want to reduce clutter in my tab bar I send the tab there. As you can see, I haven't really done much housecleaning in there lately. I used to use my Bookmarks.

Icons 2 and 3 are my own extensions.
 
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-I keep the title bar of the enabled for 2 reasons.
I'm constantly using the Windows 7 feature of dragging a window to the side of the screen to pin it there. Super useful for when I want to pin a browser on one side of the screen and a video on another side of the screen, or 2 webpages side by side or whatever. A title bar makes a window easier to grab.
It comforts me to be able to read the whole title of a webpage, having only the truncated title in the tab row bothers me.
-I keep the menu bar because I'm often using the history and bookmarks dropdown and having the other dropdowns there is just bonus to me.
-I have the "Close Tab" button off to the side so it doesn't waste space on each tab, that way I can read that much more of a title.
-I showed the "find" bar for the screenshot just because I really like the way that works as opposed to the Chrome "find". The highlighted words on the page are much clearer and it's easier to search a term from tab to tab or page to page because the bar stays down there as long as you have it open.
-I have the "Read Later" button for when I want to bookmark a page to Instapaper so I can read it on iOS.

Also, I don't use Aero because I feel it clashes badly with every non-glass UI element.
I'll never understand why people do this. Which one is easier to read?

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I think it's a pain to read the first one and I don't even have a wide screen.[/QUOTE]
I usually do windowed mode if I know I'm just reading a long article, but if I'm on a message board or other sites where people post large pictures I stick with maximized.
 
How do the yall get the mini tab for gmail? Without the text and stuff.
 
The Twitter one just opens Twitter or switches to its tab. The NeoGAF one however does this.
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Wait, so you don't have to go to your subscriptions page, you just click on that button and it shows them as a list (I'm assuming updated ones)?

:o

:O
 
No. Though it has been a thought. It just lists open NeoGAF tabs and has quick links to the three forums I use.

If you like that, you should see the custom CSS and HTML I inject into the page.
 
There's not enough crazy in this thread.


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There we go. Pretty sure I outnerded all you lynx/links/elinks losers. ;P

Waiting for a netcat entry now...

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Here's what I use now. I moved from a 1600x1200 monitor to a 1920x1080 monitor. That means I got a shitload more horizontal space and a shitload less vertical space. Up/Down space is at a relative premium, and I have more left/right than I can handle! So I do whatever I can to save on the vertical. In this case, my tabs are down the right side of the page, and my URL bar is merged with the status bar. The titlebar is used for grouping windows, so I cannot use it for the tabs. Also, I keep a lot of tabs running, so they would be pretty useful in that limited amount of space.

My desktop is pretty much the same. All my controls are on the extreme left of the screen. I have the full vertical run of everything. It works incredibly well for me.


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At home, I almost exclusively use opera. At work, I use opera for non-work stuff (like GAF) using a home socks proxy. For work stuff, I use firefox. Tree-style tabs is amazing and allows me to group my tabs in a logical manner. Opera has something similar, but I think that this method here is a little better. Until I saw this thread, the UI was a bit cluttered. Today, I got rid of the bookmark bar then merged the controls on the navigation bar onto the menu bar. I'll see if it's not too much of a hassle to have a bookmark sidebar toggle button instead of a full-on bookmark toolbar.

edit: Gonna have to waste vertical space again and put the location bar in its own space. Hitting Ctrl-L brings up a location dialog instead of focusing on the bar when it's up there. Eh, no worries, it was an interesting experiment. :)


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There's not much I can do with chrome to modify the UI. It's just so incredibly inflexible. That's a shame, as I really like the idea of keeping separate tabs in their own processes. Hmm, maybe there's an extension nowadays to get that tab bar off from the top of the window.


Anyway, I will gladly be amused at people who get inexplicably angry at the idea of, say, putting tabs on the left or right of the window, even though rational bases for doing so were given. For the rest of you, I hope you enjoyed this daily dose of nutty. :)
 
Tree Style Tab >>>>>> *

Makes managing multiple tabs much more agreeable than the horizontal layout.
 
Some of you need a Speed Dial extension. I switched to Chrome from Opera and just couldn't go on without speed dial. Completely eliminates the need for tons of icons cluttering up the UI on top. Lightning-fast access to most-used sites.
 
Some of you need a Speed Dial extension. I switched to Chrome from Opera and just couldn't go on without speed dial. Completely eliminates the need for tons of icons cluttering up the UI on top. Lightning-fast access to most-used sites.

I actually used to use something similar to speeddial. Now I just popout my bookmarks on the left sidebar. Still could use an addon that lists most common pages on new tab, though. Any recommendations?
 
Todays reveal of Mountain Lion has me seriously considering switching back to Safari in the Summer. It's like the only OS X native app I don't use. But its syncing features with iCloud and iOS will be amazing.

Also, thanks for the Dark NeoGAF. It'll make early morning darkened room wakeups to NeoGAF much easier on the eyes. I always end up turning the brightness because my eyes are hurting from the white.

Edit: Dark NeoGAF seems to conflict with my NeoGAF User Highlighter extension. It seems to take priority over it. Is there any way to fix this? I can't live without my highlighted posts.
 
Todays reveal of Mountain Lion has me seriously considering switching back to Safari in the Summer. It's like the only OS X native app I don't use. But its syncing features with iCloud and iOS will be amazing.

Also, thanks for the Dark NeoGAF. It'll make early morning darkened room wakeups to NeoGAF much easier on the eyes. I always end up turning the brightness because my eyes are hurting from the white.

Edit: Dark NeoGAF seems to conflict with my NeoGAF User Highlighter extension. It seems to take priority over it. Is there any way to fix this? I can't live without my highlighted posts.
It's supposed to work when you select user highlighter compatibility (Chrome Extension).
 
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Used FF a lot, switched to Chrome, back to FF, had flash and memory problems and now back on the botnet.

Its fast but if fucking eats memory like a hog. 2GB for that ^
 
Yes I am. But it has no options in Chrome. Unless they're hidden somewhere.

When you install the script in the first place you have to choose before the download to enable compatibility with the highlighter script. Remove your current dark script, then head to http://userstyles.org/styles/56218/neogaf-pro-dark again and make sure you set "NeoGAF User Highlighter Compatibility (Chrome Extension)" to Enabled before you install.

That gets it working just fine for me :)
 
When you install the script in the first place you have to choose before the download to enable compatibility with the highlighter script. Remove your current dark script, then head to http://userstyles.org/styles/56218/neogaf-pro-dark again and make sure you set "NeoGAF User Highlighter Compatibility (Chrome Extension)" to Enabled before you install.

That gets it working just fine for me :)

Hmm, all that did was make the post areas all white and the rest black. Even the text is light grey. I think something is broken.
 
Hmm, all that did was make the post areas all white and the rest black. Even the text is light grey. I think something is broken.
That does sound quite broken. You don't have more than one style enabled in Stylish do you? It could also be another extension. Have you tried disabling them all and refreshing just to see if that makes a difference?

Otherwise, it might just be remove Stylish/Highlighter and reinstall them both. It should look something like this when it works correctly:

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Not nearly enough classic Firefox + XP love in this thread:
Also, my links bar is getting pretty antiquated. I got a job a year ago!

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