Google Chrome

[Raqia]

I sometimes have around 300 tabs open myself, however that's usually a guarantee that Chrome is about to crash even though I have 32 gigs of ram. There seems to be an issue w/ either Flash or Chrome's main process exceeding a certain memory profile, I guess it may have something to do w/ the fact that it's 32 bit. (To Chrome's credit, I wouldn't come close to that many tabs before a crash in IE, Firefox, or even Waterfox though.)

My favorite plugin to deal w/ these issues is "Session Buddy." It lets you save your ENTIRE session and restore individual windows. Of course having to have those tabs back is a little obsessive but this addin is only meant for people like that. The save isn't prefect since individual tabs' forward and backward histories are not preserved; according to the dev, Chrome doesn't expose that aspect in its API yet.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

IE can definitely handle 300 tabs. I've had over 400 or so a few times. It depends on the websites as well. Some websites with heavy graphics and/or javascript can really eat up your memory.

One annoying thing I'm starting to notice about Chrome is that Flash has a tendency to crash far more often in Chrome (frequent) than in IE (almost never) if you have multiple tabs that makes even very light use of Flash. Not a huge problem for me as I can just close down Chrome and reload as I rarely have more than 10-15 tabs open in Chrome.

Regards,
SB

 

[Raqia]

IE can definitely handle 300 tabs. I've had over 400 or so a few times. It depends on the websites as well. Some websites with heavy graphics and/or javascript can really eat up your memory.

One annoying thing I'm starting to notice about Chrome is that Flash has a tendency to crash far more often in Chrome (frequent) than in IE (almost never) if you have multiple tabs that makes even very light use of Flash. Not a huge problem for me as I can just close down Chrome and reload as I rarely have more than 10-15 tabs open in Chrome.

Regards,
SB

IE can handle it but there's definitely a speed deficit compared to Chrome; I should try it with IE10 64bit though. IE also has a tendency to crash when I return from sleep, not the whole browser mind you but one of its sub windows. I still value the (relative) freedom and features of Chrome like incognito and the ability to save jpgs from sites that forbid you to do so. (Error in implementation in Chrome?)

 

[Blazkowicz]

In Chrome some websites seem to defeat "middle click opens in tab", such as my yahoo webmail, this doesn't happen in Firefox. In Chrome the stuff opens in current tab instead and I have to right-click, open in tab. It's a small issue but I don't why it's that way.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

IE can handle it but there's definitely a speed deficit compared to Chrome; I should try it with IE10 64bit though. IE also has a tendency to crash when I return from sleep, not the whole browser mind you but one of its sub windows. I still value the (relative) freedom and features of Chrome like incognito and the ability to save jpgs from sites that forbid you to do so. (Error in implementation in Chrome?)

Isn't incognito in Chrome basically the same as InPrivate browsing for IE?

And until they fix their popup blocking in Chrome I could never consider it for a main browser.

Regards,
SB

 

[zed]

whats a popup I literally havent seen one in years. This is no joke. Name a site with one on, I want to deja vu the bad old days.
I tried ie10 yesterday, donno but for somereason the whole top of the window is a blank bar until the min/max/close window icons. surely they can utilize this space eg stick the address bar there. Or am I not seeing the option to enable this?

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Clicking on any of the post numbers here constitutes a pop-up.

In IE, when set to block all popups it correctly blocks and notifies you. When not set, it opens in a new tab by default.

In Chrome, when set to block all popups (default behavior), it doesn't bother to block it and opens it in a new tab. Chrome is extremely inconsistent with regards to what popups it will block and which it won't.

That's not so bad on this site as I trust Rys and company aren't out to do anything malicious. The behavior is still annoying. Especially as Chrome also fails to apply the popup blocking on links that actually force a new window to popup and then hide behind the main window. And on sites that I don't implicitly trust, I find the behavior extremely disturbing.

At no time should a link open in a new tab or window unless I explicitly allow it if I have it set to not allow any site to do it. Nor should a website be allowed to do so when clicking anywhere in the window that isn't a link (have had this happen quite frequently when friends send me images to view on free image hosting sites). But since I know that Chrome is unable or unwilling to block popups on those sites, I now know to use IE instead.

Regards,
SB

 

[zed]

I dont know if I'ld call those popups (youve clicked on a link which I assume you want to see and it opens in a new tab) to me a popup is eg a small flashing window pops up and saiz youve won 100000 dollars

also IE does not stop all popup's
popuptest.com
it fails 4 or 5 tests here

I tested chrome
and it only failed 2 tests, still 2 too many

BETTER POPUP BLOCKER BROWSER
winner = Chrome

looks like you may be switching back to chrome, and as a bonus they'll throw in a decent sized addressbar, WTH were they thinking my mobile phone has a larger address bar than IE

 

[Davros]

tried popuptest.com Multi-PopUp Test
Opera passed 10 out of 10 blocked

 

[Npl]

theres no fun bringing opera in browser comparisons, you`d atleast have to take a 4 year old version to make it somewhat fair

 

[Blazkowicz]

Some sites have very powerful popups that open in both Firefox and Chrome at least, thanksfully they are somewhat rare - mainstream sites don't do that anymore and even porn sites are often sites.

Here is a such a site with a powerful pop-up (otherwise the site doesn't nag you afterwards and any way it's a "grey market" torrent house)
http://www.t411.me

 

[Orion]

whats a popup I literally havent seen one in years. This is no joke. Name a site with one on, I want to deja vu the bad old days.
I tried ie10 yesterday, donno but for somereason the whole top of the window is a blank bar until the min/max/close window icons. surely they can utilize this space eg stick the address bar there. Or am I not seeing the option to enable this?

isohunt.com has popups.

 

[Babel-17]

whats a popup I literally havent seen one in years. This is no joke. Name a site with one on, I want to deja vu the bad old days.
I tried ie10 yesterday, donno but for somereason the whole top of the window is a blank bar until the min/max/close window icons. surely they can utilize this space eg stick the address bar there. Or am I not seeing the option to enable this?

http://www.kephyr.com/popupkillertest/test/index.html

I failed 12, 13, 21, and 22. Several tests were only for IE and I have Firefox. I also don't have a Java plug-in.

Good luck!

 

[Davros]

failed 12
22 i got do you want to download test22.smi (I clicked cancel)

 

[Silent_Buddha]

I dont know if I'ld call those popups (youve clicked on a link which I assume you want to see and it opens in a new tab) to me a popup is eg a small flashing window pops up and saiz youve won 100000 dollars

In tab-less browsers those links would open in new windows, hence popup. Basically anything that doesn't open in the same window is a popup.

also IE does not stop all popup's
popuptest.com
it fails 4 or 5 tests here

I tested chrome
and it only failed 2 tests, still 2 too many

BETTER POPUP BLOCKER BROWSER
winner = Chrome

looks like you may be switching back to chrome, and as a bonus they'll throw in a decent sized addressbar, WTH were they thinking my mobile phone has a larger address bar than IE

Not sure what you have IE set to, but IE 8, 9, and 10 blocked 5 out of 5 popups when set to block all popups and not just some popups. You can set IE to block ALL popups or block all popups except those that you explicitly click on (3 popup blocker settings, the last one being don't block any popups). I no longer have IE 7 on any machine to test, but IE 7 also never allowed any popups when set to the block all setting.

I have mine set to block all popups. And thus I've basically had no unwanted popups for a LONG time now except in Chrome.

Chrome only has two options. Allow all popups or don't allow any popups. It is extremely erratic in what popups it decides to block and which it doesn't. This includes links that you explicitly click on. Some it blocks and some it doesn't.

When I click on a link, I expect it to open in the same window as I clicked it on. If it doesn't then that is undesired behavior from me. Hence, it should never do that unless I explicitly allow it to (middle mouse click or control click).

On the few occasions Chrome actually decides to block a popup those same controls also allow me to override it if I actually want to open it. But unfortunately that's not good enough. Especially when a page opens a popup just by click ANYWHERE in the page. Go to highlight a word or phrase to copy it? Popup.

Hence I have to be extra careful what pages to visit if a friend sends me a link to some pictures he took or a work project or home movie or whatever he wants me to download off a filesharing site. As such I can never ever use Chrome for those functions, and must always do them in IE. Hell I have to be careful just doing research as sometimes I have to go to pages I'm unfamiliar with. In Chrome that would mean potentially clicking in what would otherwise appear to be a legitimate page only to have it open up a page with malicious content just by attempting to copy and paste some text.

Regards,
SB

 

[Blazkowicz]

Thanks who whoever talked about Session Buddy, it gave me what I missed, a UI that lists all tabs (with a full length, readable title) and allowed me to untick and get rid of them.

I had 300 tabs and went down to just 50.
Note that my PC couldn't handle 300 tabs at all unless I force killed them.
Session Buddy was at first not very usable for me, it caused entire windows of tabs to get loaded (dunno why) making my memory and swap shoot up.
I had to exit Chrome, launch it again and wait till it fills all memory/swap and crashes ; then I launched it again and while Chrome displayed the "do you want to restore" bar I loaded Session Buddy and unticked all the crap.

 

[zed]

I tried babel-17's test

chrome 25 (latest version)
7/ not sure
12/ fail
22/ not sure downloads file

ie 10 (latest version) set to stop all popups
10/ fail
12/ fail
16/ fail
21/ fail
22/ save file

anyways contrary to what silentbudda saiz, IE does a worse job. Though its surprising that any browser fails these surely they would have some testsuites that they try out their browsers on and the engineers would go, hey lets fix this.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

http://www.kephyr.com/popupkillertest/test/index.html

I failed 12, 13, 21, and 22. Several tests were only for IE and I have Firefox. I also don't have a Java plug-in.

Good luck!

- Failed 12 (JavaScript layer, not an actual window). Passes with JavaScript disabled.
- 14 "technically failed" according to the test text, but passed according to my requirements. In other words, no new window or tab opened when I clicked any link.
- Failed 16 (another JavaScript layer, not an actual window). Passes with JavaScript disabled.
- Failed 25 (Java Window). I thought I had uninstalled Java from this machine but guess not, will have to remove it for good after this.
- 27 didn't exactly fail, it just popped up an error about the JavaScript being used. With JavaScript disabled you obviously don't get even that.

I'll have to test IE 8 and 9 later just to see, but I expect the same behavior. Will see how Chrome handles it.

Either way none of those failures were actual browser windows or tabs being opened. Even test 25 is basically a Java applet window. The Javascript ones just open what looks like a window within the window.

Disabling Javascript and removing Java from this machine would mean that I wouldn't have failed a single test. And since my normal browsing habits have JavaScript turned off at all times in IE, then that leaves pretty much nothing that could be considered a popup.

Regards,
SB

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Here's a perfect example.

http://www.imagebam.com/image/a86a8d220110003

It's some picture of some woman from Breaking Dawn part 2. My g/f is a Twilight fanatic. /roll_eyes. So I get to deal with that. (pity me guys).

Anyway. In IE, there are no popups on that page. In Chrome, the first time each day (so only once per day as far as I can tell) you go to view an image there clicking anywhere in that window will open a popup window. Generally to some site called update93.com prompting you to click something to update flash. Obviously a bogus and malicious site.

And that's not even the worst site that does crap like that. Some of the image hosts I've seen linked to her pop up a window everytime you click anywhere in the window. I keep telling my friends and ESPECIALLY her friends to use better image hosts (some of the ones they use are WAY worse with regards to popups on Chrome that don't happen in IE). But I think most of them are just copying and pasting image links they found from other sites (in other words, not actually uploaded by them).

Regards,
SB

 

[Davros]

Since windows update has just asked me to install i.e 10
i.e 10 =69mb
opera =12.6mb
cant tell chrome because it downloads a stub (msi = 32mb)
firefox 19.8mb