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I have a question for other Chrome users:
As a graduate student I'm opening up academic articles, papers, etc in PDF form very often. Does anybody else notice that Chrome handles PDFs very poorly? For me it won't even load properly about 10% of the time. When it does load, it scrolls like crap about 50% of the time. Is ANYBODY else having this problem besides me?
Also, it seems to handle videos and flash inadequately sometimes..
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On February 06 2010 03:39 SoLaR[i.C] wrote: I have a question for other Chrome users:
As a graduate student I'm opening up academic articles, papers, etc in PDF form very often. Does anybody else notice that Chrome handles PDFs very poorly? For me it won't even load properly about 10% of the time. When it does load, it scrolls like crap about 50% of the time. Is ANYBODY else having this problem besides me?
Also, it seems to handle videos and flash inadequately sometimes..
Wouldn't it be better to open your PDF's in an external app designed for this (aka FoxitReader)?
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Well Adobe Reader (outside of Chrome) works fairly well if I actually want to sit down and read the entire thing that I've saved to my hd. The problem is that I often find myself browsing PDFs online and reading the abstracts to see if it matches my research topic.
I guess I'm wondering if this is something Google knows about and will hopefully be trying to fix with the next update?
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On February 06 2010 03:39 SoLaR[i.C] wrote: I have a question for other Chrome users:
As a graduate student I'm opening up academic articles, papers, etc in PDF form very often. Does anybody else notice that Chrome handles PDFs very poorly? For me it won't even load properly about 10% of the time. When it does load, it scrolls like crap about 50% of the time. Is ANYBODY else having this problem besides me?
Also, it seems to handle videos and flash inadequately sometimes..
On my work computer I use preview and at home i just use foxit for pdf handling both of which work well. There might be a new addon for foxit integration for in browser pdf files but wouldnt you rather use an external application to begin with?
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Mystlord
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On February 06 2010 03:39 SoLaR[i.C] wrote: I have a question for other Chrome users:
As a graduate student I'm opening up academic articles, papers, etc in PDF form very often. Does anybody else notice that Chrome handles PDFs very poorly? For me it won't even load properly about 10% of the time. When it does load, it scrolls like crap about 50% of the time. Is ANYBODY else having this problem besides me?
Also, it seems to handle videos and flash inadequately sometimes.. I believe that should be an Adobe thing. Adobe probably hasn't done that good of a job in adapting their Adobe Reader code for Chrome (though I haven't heard any reports of this so take my advice with a grain of salt).
On another note, you could always open PDFs with Google Docs or just open them on your computer. You download the PDF whether you read it online or not so....
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I think I'll give FoxtIt a try and hopefully within the coming months I'll see a Chrome addon for it. I appreciate it guys.
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On February 02 2010 15:59 Plexa wrote: Chrome's interface just really really annoys me =/ This is one of 2 reasons why I use Chrome. The other being its speed.
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On February 04 2010 07:32 Kenpachi wrote: Chrome is win. Chrome its so awesome. simplicity and the ability to make new windows just by taking a tab out of chrome!!!!!!!!! seriously. fastest browser so far. You know you can do that with opera, infact you can always drag that tab and add it into another window and combine it!
Ofc this is becuase how opera handles "tabbed" browsing is acutlly though making them a series of windows grouped into another window so pulling those windows out and putting them back in is a simple task.
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On February 06 2010 06:01 Virtue wrote: Ofc this is becuase how opera handles "tabbed" browsing is acutlly though making them a series of windows grouped into another window so pulling those windows out and putting them back in is a simple task. This is at this point considered good browser design. That Firefox doesn't have this feature is certainly a flaw, but one that's almost certainly going to be gone in Firefox 4.
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I tried chrome and its slow, even the ad-blocker only blocks select ads and not the stupid commercials you get when you first open a stream or play certain youtube videos. I'll stick with FF.
Me personally I haven't had any problems with FF it runs fast and my computer is garbage so i don't know where people are getting this "ff is slow" stuff.
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It comes from the poeple that have 28 add ons and 33 greesemonkey scripts running on their firefox and it's so bloated it melts their computer and the people that never clean anything on their computer so the browser remebers and has to sort though everything they ever done.
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On February 06 2010 06:04 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2010 06:01 Virtue wrote: Ofc this is becuase how opera handles "tabbed" browsing is acutlly though making them a series of windows grouped into another window so pulling those windows out and putting them back in is a simple task. This is at this point considered good browser design. That Firefox doesn't have this feature is certainly a flaw, but one that's almost certainly going to be gone in Firefox 4.
Oh god no! I wish they even took out 'open in new window' option from the current builds. I freaking hate having more than 1 instance of browser running (even if it means having 60 open tabs) so the 'take tab out and make new window out of it' is not an option for me.
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