Google Chrome help

[KiddingAnxiously]

I installed Google Chrome last night, and so far so good (I love the spell checker!)

The only glitch I have had seems to be with Mumsnet - once I have read a thread and back space to get back to the list of threads, it goes back to the top of the list instead of where I was (does this make sense?)

Am I doing something wrong? It is sooo annoying.

Yes I use Chrome and have this - sometimes it remembers where you are on the page and sometimes it doesn't, but it does it for all websites, not just mumsnet.

It is extremely irritating, hopefully it will be fixed in a future release. Unfortunately I can't use anything else!

Where you were on the prev page, even.

Thanks Bertie, I guess I'll have to persevere then until it's fixed...

The good does outweigh the bad though

(assuming you have two buttons on your mouse)

With Chrome (and several other browsers) you can use the right-hand button to get a menu.

If you have a window with a list of thread titles, you could use the right button, and then click (with left mouse button) on "open link in new tab" (or if you prefer "open link in new window")

The new tab (/ window) will hold the messages in the thread you selected, and when you close that tab/ window, you will go back to the list of topics.

Genius!

Thank you so much

Yes there is that workaround, still, it involves clicking to close the tab and I usually use backspace to go back

You can close with ctrl-w too.

There are often several ways to do a task, some may be a little harder, but if there's some other way that works it can be worth 'bending your ways' to accommodate it.

Fortunately this seems to be a suitable workaround for KiddingAnxiously.

What is google chrome and does it work as well on a MAc?

Google Chrome is just one of many web browsers.

On a Mac, by default, you'd have Apple's Safari browser, but you can also try Opera, Firefox, and Chrome (and lots more, no doubt).

There's the Browser Watch website for news on web browsers.

Unfortunately, Pennies, it looks as if Google Chrome might not {yet} have a version for the Mac (or the web page contents could be tailored to show a version depending on what you are using, so do visit and please report back if there is a version for OSX).

I can certainly recommend Firefox and Opera as alternative browsers, if Chrome is not available. Firefox has lots of "add-ons" to allow a user to tailor it to do extra things - I won't bore with technical examples, but there are options to block adverts, change the appearance, and so on.

Google is working on its own operating system for PCs to be an alternative to Linux and Windows, so they might limit how much they do with the Chrome browser for other systems, in future.

(Similarly, Apple probably puts more effort into new versions of software for Mac users, and things may work more smoothly, simply because they probably dislike spreading their resources to cover the mass market Windows machines, when they earn more from purchases of Apple hardware.)

I have just moved to chrome from Mozilla Firefox as it was driving me nuts.

Google do have a Beta (demo/test version) of Chrome for a Mac. However you need Mac OS X 10.5 and an Intel Processor (any new Mac bought in about the last 4 years should have one) to run it.

You can get it here:
www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac&hl=en

Personally on a Mac I'm a big fan of Safari, nothing else comes close.

However for some reason the Windows version just feels awful and on that I prefer Opera, it's a very quick and smooth browser.

You can get it here:
www.opera.com/