Re: What can be learnt from Chrome

[tchomby <tchomby googlemail com>]

A few more:

Typing ? focuses the URL bar and the default search engine. Nice
keyboard shortcut!

Sites that support OpenSearch are automatically added as keyword
searches in chrome's url bar if you visit the site and use it's search
once. Very nice! Currently adding search bookmarks in epiphany is
tricky enough that I don't bother.

To manually edit the configured search engines you right-click on the
url bar and choose 'Edit search engines'. This seems like the right
place to access this configuration from, rather than having to go into
the Bookmarks menu and edit your bookmarks.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:12 PM, tchomby <tchomby googlemail com> wrote:
> I think there are quite a lot of user interface features that could be
> learned from chrome also. For example:
>
> * Each tab should have a throbber, there should not be a general
> throbber for the browser window. This way if one tab is taking a long
> time to load it looks (correctly) like that tab is being slow, doesn't
> give the psychological impression that the whole browser is slow.
>
> * You should be able to browse history as if it were any other web
> page. Chrome autogenerates a nice, searchable html page with your
> history in chronological order. ctrl+h opens it.
>
> * The same goes for bookmarks also.
>
> * Have a useful new-tab page instead of a home page. Chrome
> auto-generates a page with thumbnails linking to your most-visited
> sites, a list of your recently bookmarked sites, and a couple of other
> handy things.
>
> * The ability to drag a tab out of the browser to move it into a new window.
>
> * Chrome does not have a File Edit View etc. menu bar because it
> doesn't need one. It has the URL bar and a bookmarks bar which can be
> shown and hidden with ctrl-b. It gets as much useful functionality in
> as firefox or epiphany, using a lot less vertical space.
>
> * The status bar only pops up when it has something to say, the rest
> of the time it doesn't waste space.
>
> There are lots of other little things like this. Since I'm back on
> linux now I can't run chrome to remember them all. But I think it's UI
> is quite a lot better than epiphany or firefox.
>