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Chrome does not like my computer. It occasionally freezes up (at least once a webpage), and won't do anything for anywhere between 2 sec and a minute. (Having mouse scroll stop working and then suddenly finding yourself at the bottom of a page is actually really annoying.) Fairly often it won't switch from arrow cursor to click link hand cursor, so I can't tell if its registering the mouse click in the correct location or not (and then 5 new tabs will suddenly open with the same link sometime later, or I'll end up two or three pages away from the one I was trying to click on because there happened to be links in the same location on all the pages). And checkboxes don't appear (they work, but they're not visible).
Conveniently there's a direct link in the menu to tell them something isn't working. Unfortunately, it seems to be targeted to specific webpages and the menus also don't work when chrome freezes up, so that's pretty useless. I did track down some comment form and mention the freezing and lack of checkboxes. It seemed to be a generic comment form, however, so I doubt that'll even be noticed.
Every instance of Chrome (every individual page, and probably some other stuff) shows up as simply 'chrome' in the windows task manager, which is actually kind of problematic since I can't compare how much memory and processing as a whole chrome is taking up (vs Matlab and how much I want available to Matlab). If I could find the link to the chrome memory/process manager it probably wouldn't be such a problem, since I'd at least know which webpages would be the most worthwhile to close (According to one of the videos on more about chrome, it appears that the link is in a right click menu, and not in a click-here-icon left click menu). Also, arbitrarily picking a process labeled 'chrome' and killing it through the windows task manager (because the whole thing is frozen up again), killed the chrome application, but left 3 or so processes running (one of which refused to be killed by windows for awhile).
Chrome also appears to be incapable of running while Matlab is busy; every page turns into a this-webpage-has-stopped-responding page.
And my computer just arbitrarily restarted itself.
It sure looked shiny when ejwu showed it to me late last night, but I guess I'm stuck with Firefox. While firefox may cause matlab to crash if closed while matlab is running, I haven't had my computer restart without warning before (at least, not that I can remember), and I can still browse the web while matlab is busy.
Conveniently there's a direct link in the menu to tell them something isn't working. Unfortunately, it seems to be targeted to specific webpages and the menus also don't work when chrome freezes up, so that's pretty useless. I did track down some comment form and mention the freezing and lack of checkboxes. It seemed to be a generic comment form, however, so I doubt that'll even be noticed.
Every instance of Chrome (every individual page, and probably some other stuff) shows up as simply 'chrome' in the windows task manager, which is actually kind of problematic since I can't compare how much memory and processing as a whole chrome is taking up (vs Matlab and how much I want available to Matlab). If I could find the link to the chrome memory/process manager it probably wouldn't be such a problem, since I'd at least know which webpages would be the most worthwhile to close (According to one of the videos on more about chrome, it appears that the link is in a right click menu, and not in a click-here-icon left click menu). Also, arbitrarily picking a process labeled 'chrome' and killing it through the windows task manager (because the whole thing is frozen up again), killed the chrome application, but left 3 or so processes running (one of which refused to be killed by windows for awhile).
Chrome also appears to be incapable of running while Matlab is busy; every page turns into a this-webpage-has-stopped-responding page.
And my computer just arbitrarily restarted itself.
It sure looked shiny when ejwu showed it to me late last night, but I guess I'm stuck with Firefox. While firefox may cause matlab to crash if closed while matlab is running, I haven't had my computer restart without warning before (at least, not that I can remember), and I can still browse the web while matlab is busy.