Chrome just shot to awesome - Page 2

Does Safari 5 have find-as-you-type? I can't find it, which is a deal breaker.

The Find (Command-F) is find-as-you-type. There is no old school "type and then find". The Done button dismisses the Find banner.

Plain old Undo will undo closing a tab. It does go into the regular undo stack, though, so if do stuff in the meantime (like typing), that will be undone as well.

If I have to hit Cmd-F first, it's not find-as-you-type :) Hoping for an extension to come out, then.

Good Undo tip -- I didn't know that.

Safari doesn't seem to do RSS like Firefox does either. Maybe I'm just used to FF, but it it seems to have much better UI and more little amenities to be easily usable. But I'm plodding along in Chrome, learning to use it.

Oh, gotcha. But an old school Find dialog would be worse -- they've gone half way.

I wonder if there's some UX consistency argument: if focus happens to be in a control, and some sites try to put it there when the pages loads, then typing goes into the control; but if not then it searches. That's not consistent....

Firefox (dunno about other browsers) has a handy Search Through Links by hitting slash first. Then what you type only searches through link text on the page. Handy for navigating sites with only a keyboard.

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Originally Posted by Ken Chan 

Oh, gotcha. But an old school Find dialog would be worse -- they've gone half way.

 

I wonder if there's some UX consistency argument: if focus happens to be in a control, and some sites try to put it there when the pages loads, then typing goes into the control; but if not then it searches. That's not consistent....

It probably isn't consistent, but once you're used to it, it sure is handy :) The live search is much better than the old IE6 method of using a Find pane -- which is the recourse at work, where we are lashed to IE6 and WinXP.

I'm also used to FF's RSS "live" bookmarks. Safari's approach, loading the RSS feed into a page is workable, though not nearly as convenient for me. Chrome doesn't even try to deal with RSS: you have to use a secondary reader.

This is a hard switch. FF is much more usable and powerful for my tastes. I wish I could eliminate it as the source of my crashes, because I'd like to switch back. But right now, a loss of features is outweighed by fear of these recurring Kernel Panics.

Another Chrome question: Is there a way to have it update passwords? It doesn't recognize when I type in a revised password into an auto-completed field, and doesn't ask if it should update it (as FF does and I think Safari and IE also).