Evening Reading: So Much Motion

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  "more awesomebar type stuff from firefox". Like what? Be specific. "Extensions while using incognito ... : Zero|DPX
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    Morons should learn to use the keyboard for switching tabs. I don't know how to easily restore a window ... : ThomW
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      Windows + Down : DrWaffles
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        Although, this might be a new addition to Windows 7. :F Anyway, I replied to your post in the previous... : DrWaffles
        • Doesn't work in XP (which I'm sad to say what's running on every machine I touch). I saw and that's ... : ThomW
    • I thought he said they did, and Fitt's Law works better for the tabs since that gets used more. : ieGod
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    ability to have no on disk cache (ie RAM cache only). Running Chrome on a system with Enhanced Write F... : MamiyaOtaru
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      Yeah, obscure wishes about EWF aren't things we're gonna spend time on :) I don't know what your last ... : Zero|DPX
      • Your PAC support (as far as I have found it) involves adding --proxy-pac-url="file:///c:/windows/system32... : MamiyaOtaru
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    "I also hate the integrated google search in my address bar, it only means I fuck up alot more of my typi : filthysock
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      We inline autocomplete URLs when * You've typed them before (selecting them in the omnibox dropdown coun... : Zero|DPX
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        NICE! I just typed in "shacknews.com/latestchatty.x", hit return, and now that comes up as the first resu... : filthysock
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          And this is one of the reasons why I fucking LOVE chrome. Keep up the great work Zero|DPX!!! : Ormsbee
          • I don't want to shit on this, but my firefox suggests latestchatty if I type l, c or s, because of histor... : razorblade79
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    I love that you come here and represent for chrome, but sometimes you have a little too much of the arrog... : Albemuth
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      this http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=6337 ? : crummynz
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        maybe this? http://sapiens.shackspace.com/images/Chrome.png : Sapiens
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          That was launching with the --incognito argument though. I wonder if it behaves properly without it. : Sapiens
          • Regular Chrome and Beta Chrome do not have this issue. It is just on the latest Dev build. I experienced ... : steve_o
    • I dont think he does, really. His answers are rather 'matter of factly'. : stelth
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      For most issues that people raise, they're things we've considered in the past and come to a conclusion o... : Zero|DPX
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        I think that's fair enough. While I'll probably never use Chrome as a result of some of the decisions ... : nudel
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          I am definitely a fan of Firefox (not as much Safari or Opera, sorry Opera fans) and am really glad they ... : Zero|DPX
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            the browser has no innovation. i'm currently working on one that actually changes the way people use the... : kn1fe
            • Yeah OK that's real tempting. (I'm not even going to bother defending against your first sentence.) : Zero|DPX
            • lol. : Yanks
            • you must work for opera lmao : mrvandelay
          • Yeah, if Chrome pushes Firefox to get better then I benefit from Chrome without even using it, which is g... : nudel
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        OK, I respect self-awareness and clarity of purpose. I guess I just don't deal with developers on a daily... : Albemuth
        • Our number one guide is what our users want, as measured by many factors including usage and install/unin... : Zero|DPX
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    I really appreciate you taking the time to address these complaints/questions/requests. That being said, ... : mrvandelay
    • We have part of this. You can set filetypes to "always open" via the little caret next to the downloadin... : Zero|DPX
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    Undo Close Tab (Ctrl-Shift-T) to work in incognito mode". We can't save your state, that defeats the poin : GloriousCow
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      also i don't see why doubleclicking the first few pixels of a tab couldn't unmaximize the window. Does do... : GloriousCow
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        Why would clicking a tab affect the window? Click-and-drag on a tab does not drag the window. This viol... : Zero|DPX
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          people expect to be able to restore a window by doubleclicking the title bar. I like the tabs above the a... : GloriousCow
          • hmm looks like you can still restore the window by clicking the little V shaped notches between each tab ... : GloriousCow
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            There are dozens of ways we don't do what 99% of Windows apps do. Letting you double-click anywhere at t... : Zero|DPX
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              i was just saying i don't see the problem with fitts' law in this case since minimizing is a different fu... : GloriousCow
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                We had a similar request a while back for "make middle-clicking an empty part of the tabstrip reopen clos... : Zero|DPX
                • Middle clicking as an idea is a bit different, though, that introduces an entirely new user interface con... : kaddar0
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      Closing a tab is closing a process. Clicking a link does not close a process. : mrvandelay
      • right but i don't see how keeping a per-window 'last opened tab' reference is any more of a privacy conc... : GloriousCow
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    I think Chrome not having a status bar looks odd. Example : http://www.shackpics.com/files/example_6... : jingletard
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      i just hate UI elements that pop in and out. They're distracting. Sure a status bar is a waste of space ... : GloriousCow
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        In such a resized app as a browser, the status bar's worth the space just for the resize grip, IMO. : nudel
        • Ahhh... that's its own tale :) We actually want to put a bottom-right resize-gripper in. There's code... : Zero|DPX
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        FWIW, it bugged me when I very first started using Chrome, and then I got used to it and I haven't cared ... : Zero|DPX
        • Same : steve_o
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      YES!!!! This is actually a big reason why I stopped using Chrome since webpages always looked wrong wi... : MrLobo
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        i just wish i could pin the little URL thing. its especially annoying in shacknews since every chat reply... : GloriousCow
        • It's worse with dark-background pages since there's more contrast. Most pages on the internet are white ... : Zero|DPX
    • its also fun if you highlight a link at the very bottom of the page, the little popup URL display is actu... : GloriousCow
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      I'm pretty surprised at how many people browse maximized. Interesting. : ieGod
      • I often even use fullscreen on my netbook. I actually love the minimum UI idea of chrome in that regard, ... : razorblade79
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    In regards to the Awesomebar. For example, I visited a site last night, I couldn't remember the name of : Matt Burris
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      Also, I was the one that commented about extensions and more flexibility with them. For one, the way adb... : Matt Burris
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        We're building content controls to let you actually block (or not send cookies to, or hide until clicked,... : Zero|DPX
        • Good to hear, I kind of figure we'd see some additions to extensions and such, seeing how it's fairly new... : Matt Burris
    • We do pull out matches for words in page URLs, titles, and content, but they're generally not ranked as h... : Zero|DPX
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    Call me when you have a cookie disable w/whitelist like Firefox (hardly a huge technical challenge here, ... : Freon
    • Most of that stuff should come as part of the content controls I mentioned above. Some things, like auto... : Zero|DPX
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      Incognito mode in chrome makes a whole fuckload more sense than the way FireFox does it. Oh goodie i get... : GloriousCow
      • I agree that, when you really think about it, having a pref that says "auto-incognito for empornium.us" i... : Zero|DPX
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    I think that the only thing I really want in Chrome is for the close buttons on tabs to be on the left in... : DianeOfTheMoon
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      Not going to ever happen. On Mac, I assume? The issue is that favicons are important for site recogniti... : Zero|DPX
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        do you do anything different with tabs for RTL languages? : GloriousCow
        • Yes, everything is flipped. You can experience the joy of this yourself: Options->Under the Hood->Change... : Zero|DPX
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    I've never used chrome. I've read through this anyway. However, one thing struck me in your response to t... : conandan
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      I consider this a "granny feature". granny wants to set pictures of her kids she gets through gmail to ... : GloriousCow
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        Then she should use a competing browser. If this is keeping granny from us, I'm happy to lose granny. ... : Zero|DPX
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          oh i wasn't saying granny features are *good.* I'm not a fan of cluttering up a design with infrequentl... : GloriousCow
          • I generally say "yeah, this doesn't do that" and people are suprisingly OK with it. One person gushed ... : Zero|DPX
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          I think your attitude regarding losing usership is odd. I wouldn't be happy to lose someone as a user. I ... : conandan
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            any good UI designer starts to hate users with a passion. : GloriousCow
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              Funny. Because that's your target audience. : conandan
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                they want stupid things, they want unrealistic things, they want magical buttons that give them blowjobs ... : GloriousCow
                • I have to admit I laughed at how true this is : Zero|DPX
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                  I want blow jobs and cake too. At the same time would be nice. : conandan
                  • Seriously, where can we file a feature request for chrome to add a button to do this? : Haxim
                • I'm quitting Chrome until it has a blowjobs and cake button. : ThomW
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            You are misunderstanding "happy" slightly. I'm happy to lose the user when the alternative is implemen... : Zero|DPX
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              I'm not sure how you can lose someone that was never interested in your product. : ieGod
              • What I mean to say is, the granny examples aren't even valid because unless their grandson installed chro... : ieGod
        • right click->set as background is the way I change the background 95% of the time. It's a pain in the as... : valael
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      It's not actually a fairly common use. (Trust me.) But the bigger issue is the issue of "well why not... : Zero|DPX
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        You can take the war on options too far, though. Gnome's been doing this the last few versions and someti... : Conan
        • Well, you can see that we have an Options dialog, and it's three tabs big. Although I'd love to kill som... : Zero|DPX
      • In saying common use, I meant it to mean that changing wallpaper is common use, not that most browsers ha... : conandan
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      Firefox used to be a speedy, low-footprint browser back in the 0.5-1.5 days. From 2.0 and onwards, the b... : Matt Burris
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        We have tried very, very hard to make each version faster instead of slower (not always totally successfu... : Zero|DPX
        • In that case, hooray for Ben Goodger! : Matt Burris
      • FF pre-1.5 (or so) had a huge memory leak. It couldn't make it through a single browsing session for me, ... : nudel
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    "I also hate the integrated google search in my address bar, it only means I fuck up alot more of my typi... : YerMothah
    • Given that it seems you understand what's going on in the UI, and having things work OK will involve _few... : Zero|DPX
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    Long post explaining some of my omnibar complaints/requests (specifically re: "People very rarely even lo : rgoer
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      and yes I know that the l could be for anything and the u could be for anything just like the f, it's jus... : rgoer
      • You explain the point I was trying to make, but perfectly. : YerMothah
    • Yeah, we designed the Omnibox around a different set of use cases. The keyword matching + machine learni... : Zero|DPX
  • thank you for answering my bookmark sidebar comment. now I just hope some programmer awesome guy makes on... : epit
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    tldr; Chrome is awesome and perfect right now, and you're wrong if you posted any of these. Sorry, I d... : daVinci1980
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      I guess you missed the ones where I talked about bugs on file or asked for more info. I guess you also d... : Zero|DPX
      • You did comment on some that were buggy towards the end--I hadn't gotten there yet when I wrote my respon... : daVinci1980
    • That's pretty much what I get from all of his posts about Chrome :/ : aggressor
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    Is there a way to reduce the size of the menu bar the address bar is attached to, or maybe a way to reduc... : mobab
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      No. We actually key off your system font sizes in the address bar but that doesn't impact the overall he... : Zero|DPX
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        I figured that if I could reduce the menu bar size, the size of the perceived font would shrink to fit th... : mobab
        • Furthermore, the font size in the drop down is really huge too. The drop down is nice, but the font is s... : mobab
  • The only ext's I could use in incognito would be of the ad control and script control type. :) : jasoncrowley
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    This Fitt's Law stuff, could you explain where this originated for your team and why you decided to apply... : Goto10
    • I read the wiki for the law, I just don't understand everything it's saying and how it applies to the tab... : Goto10
  • chrome is really growing on me, for alot of use cases, I still use FF, but chrome is nice. : askedrelic
  • "Right click on image, "set as desktop background"". Why is it Chrome's job to do what your OS is suppose : Sailor of Fortune
  • Good read, but also funny to see you answer some things from a techy point of view. Like the desktop back... : [7]kami
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    The Shack is broken I was expecting at least one of you to mention the face that there are eight--UND : Wikus Van De Merwe
    • *fact not face. Damn it. : Wikus Van De Merwe
• zero i for one am really enjoying seeing it come along. i like the design choices with the tabs, etc. : xxiv
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  Can you tell the gmail peeps to implement jump to next email on delete? : shirif
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    No, I cannot, I have no more contact with them than you do. : Zero|DPX
    • :( : shirif
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  Real color management support on Windows!!!!!!!! : willardjuice
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    This is a niche but longstanding request. There are several issues: * Before (I think) Vista, Windows... : Zero|DPX
    • But I'm not saying you have to enable this by default. Make it an "opt-in" feature (like Firefox 3.0 did... : willardjuice
    • On (1), littlecms is an open-source, free, fast, fully-featured CMS: http://www.littlecms.com It's ... : jcupitt
• I've been using chrome since release and the only stuff I've really wanted (gmail extension, google reade... : gia-
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  when the shack has a stupid infected ad that tries to force "pdf.pdf" down my throat, FF gives me the cho... : rgoer
  • also, thanks for your replies even if I think you're wrong and chrome is wrong :) : rgoer
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    You can check the "ask me where to save things" option, that'd do this. We have a bug open to change o... : Zero|DPX
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      It seems to me that redirecting is a horrible website implementation. What are the main reasons behind it... : conandan
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        Lots of sites do this for various reasons including authentication and advertising, neither of which is n... : Zero|DPX
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          Ok. I think I get it. I think that my apprehension here stems around assuming that the user is stupid. ... : conandan
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            I don't really understand what you're saying, but OK! : Zero|DPX
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              Ha. I guess what I mean is, you can either ban popups all together or allow them. FF allows you to choose... : conandan
              • Uh... that doesn't sound accurate at all to me. I don't know what "screening" you're thinking of. We ... : Zero|DPX
      • Sometimes it's for load balancing and/or being able to move files to other servers without changing their... : nudel
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  I run a blog over on blogspot, which I believe is also owned by Google. In a lot of ways, using Blogger ... : kallanta
  • I don't have any connection with the Blogger team. The folks who know about our rich edit controls are... : Zero|DPX
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  While I'm here (sorry, separate issue). Running Chrome maximized in Windows 7 with a hidden taskbar ofte... : kallanta
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    I have had various reports of bugs like this, and they're always slightly different and weird. I've kind... : Zero|DPX
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      You're probably right about it being a Windows thing. Fact is it's been happening less and less lately, ... : kallanta
      • We do a lot of crazy stuff in drawing our window frame that trips on Aero bugs. : Zero|DPX
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      My buddy has this very problem. I finally convinced him to stop hiding the taskbar. : hawke
      • That's not going to happen for me. I've been using a hidden taskbar for more than 10 years now. I can b... : kallanta
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  I just downloaded Chrome. I want to be able to scroll through the tabs with my mouse wheel. Also, ... : SwiftyPants
  • You can do that on the linux one. Is it not enabled on the Windows port? : Conan
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    I've never understood the scroll-through-tabs-with-wheel thing. I always have a particular tab I want to... : Zero|DPX
    • do people really use autoscroll? I guess its okay for fapping to a long gallery : GloriousCow
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      Mainly I'm too lazy to find and click the tab I want, especially with similarly named tabs. A quick visua... : SwiftyPants
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        Here's a use case for you: Just opened a bunch of image links to proof-read sugarwaffle's WE post. To... : SwiftyPants
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          you can control-tab with one hand : GloriousCow
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            Or just close the tabs as you're done. We made it so as you close each, the next slides under your mouse... : Zero|DPX
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              I like that feature. : D I wanted to keep them open so I could quickly compare between tabs to see if ... : SwiftyPants
              • I appreciate the use case. : Zero|DPX
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            Ctrl and tab are on the other side of my desk! My non-eating hand is already on my mouse. : p : SwiftyPants
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              ctrl+pgup & ctrl+pgdown work too if you're fapping eating with your left hand : GloriousCow
              • Ooh, that helps. I don't have to cross my arm so far over. : ) : SwiftyPants
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    hover over a tab and ctrl+mousewheel : filthysock
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      This does not change tabs. What are you saying. : Zero|DPX
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        its changing the tabs right here in my linux dev version. Actually i can put the mouse anywhere above the... : filthysock
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          That just locked up my computer as the text decided to increase and decrease like crazy while I scrolled.... : SwiftyPants
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            yeah, it does that when hovering over the rest of the browser : filthysock
            • Yeah, I swore I was over the tabs when I did it at first, but now I can't replicate it. Still, doesn't sc... : SwiftyPants
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          Oh, Linux. Things are totally different on Linux, I don't know what the story is there. Maybe we suppor... : Zero|DPX
          • ah, i didn't know they were that different : filthysock
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            In linux you can just scrollwheel on tabs and it works. Don't have to hold anything. : Conan
            • so it does, i r dumb : filthysock
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  I really want a tree-based taskbar plugin, like the one I have for firefox. I love that plugin. : kaddar0
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    "tree-based taskbar plugin"? : Zero|DPX
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      http://limi.net/media/tree-style-tabs.png http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu220/blogwork/1238085213.p... : kaddar0
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        Oh, tree-style tabs. Vertical tabs, at least, is definitely something we've chatted about. Dunno what... : Zero|DPX
        • Yeah, I am generally interested in any exploration the chrome team makes for managing a larger number of ... : kaddar0
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  I love the fact that on a 6-year-old laptop (Pentium M 1.4Ghz w/ 1gb RAM) running Windows 7, Chrome feels... : zerog83
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    I always get irritated when people open Task Manager, add up the RAM numbers they see, and declare that w... : Zero|DPX
    • dude, use as much RAM as you need to. as long as that shit goes away when I load up my games and I don't ... : zerog83
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  I think it would be cool to have a key binds config in the options similar to most video games where I ca... : DrFlammable
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    No. This is precisely the kind of esoteric, useless-to-99%-of-people, confusing-UI, makes for testing an... : Zero|DPX
    • Why not an about:config thing like firefox though? It's not something anyone would ever see unless they k... : Nali4Freedom
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  Mouse gestures! : Boring Writer
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    Used to have a few during development, took them out. I like the theory of mouse gestures, I've never fo... : Zero|DPX
    • Opera does it perfectly. Also rocker gestures (scroll wheel tab rotation) are fucking awesome and intuit... : Boring Writer
  • It's cool in Opera but I just use the plug in for FF. One plug in seemed to have not been updated whic... : Sailor of Fortune
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  When I go back to a page, I want the page to scroll down to the point I was at when I left it. : snuff
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    ie. Click a link to a page, then click back, it just sticks me at the top of the page, instead of down wh... : snuff
    • WFM (news.google.com, wait for load, scroll down, left click, click back) Maybe you're looking at a dy... : Zero|DPX
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  Any idea why I have I still have to add --no-sandbox to make Chrome run properly at work? : five_percent
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    What happens when you don't? What version of Chrome? What AV program do you have? : Zero|DPX
    • When I don't, Chrome starts up and looks fine, but can't open any webpages. No error message, it just see... : five_percent
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  Is there still no way to force middle-clicked tabs to open up focused (without holding down CTRL)? May... : dirtboxer
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    You mean, without holding down shift? No. : Zero|DPX
    • Ah, shift. Couldn't remember which key it was. So I'm guessing that's a no? : dirtboxer
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  Hey Zero, do extensions not work in incognito mode, and if so, is there a way to enable them? : Bean
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    no, the concern was sharing information with extensions that might allow an extension that secretly track... : GloriousCow
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      Yeah, I figured as much, and that makes total sense. However, I just want to run adblock in incognito mod... : Bean
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        i miss proxomitron. Proxy-based adblock was sweet, and you only had to configure it once for all browser... : GloriousCow
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          I might give privoxy another shot : http://www.privoxy.org/ I didn't like it a few years ago, but its b... : GloriousCow
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            Thanks GC, I will give this a look! You are now my second-favorite furry! : Bean
            • who is your favorite furry? haiku? also flashblock works in incognito mode. i think because it's a whi... : DrFlammable
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  Right click "set as desktop background" please. : underground banana plantation
  • lol : GloriousCow
• How about allowing unmentionable extensions to remove content from pages rather than just hide it? : airrob
• The only thing that I'd like to see is a right click context menu that you can control a bit better. H... : alias
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  Hey Zero the only reason I've stopped using Chrome is the freezing bug. At least once in 30 seconds it'll... : Dontdrop
  • i find this as well, but it correlates to using flash for me and I'm on mac. : radicus
• how come the new tab page sometimes doesn't update the thumbnail? I've had the same one for the shack fo... : AllYourBase
• Is there a way to make new tabs just show up as blank or my home page? I don't people seeing my most com : uncle slappy
• I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you for Chrome on Linux. It was one of the best things (se... : Micand

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  Even old New York was once New Amsterdam : Arcanum
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    No kidding. Anybody know any more of these? I find them curious. : thecray
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      Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople : Arcanum
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        On a separate note, why did Constantinople get the works? : watcherxp
        • NO!!!! : ass-street
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          NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. : felicia
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            Watcherxp is of Turkish descent : rosewood
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              Oh shit. Well, he should ask his relations. : felicia
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                Let me ask them, it's their business to know such things : watcherxp
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                  Maybe they like it better that way! : shavenewok
                  • Well, seems that the answer seems to be that it IS NOT ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS : watcherxp
        • *sigh* : Arcanum
        • constantinople was conquered by the ottomans. most (but not all) of its churches were converted into mosq... : CoRDS
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        And before that it was Byzantium : invisible_kid
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          Please tell me you've heard the song by They Might Be Giants. : Arcanum
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            I think I have heard of that band : invisible_kid
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              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynuwcd8SAhE : Arcanum
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                Ok, I didn't realize that had two minutes of no singing. The real song starts at around the two minute m... : Arcanum
                • Why not just go with this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-KcF3Rkv8 : Vimn
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            they didn't write it, it's an old-ass barbershop song iirc : dirge23
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              Oh shit, Arcanum, you just got owned in the trivia department! : SockMonkeh
              • he's not wrong, i was just throwin some more slag on this useless thread : dirge23
            • Yeah, that sounds familiar, now that you mention it. : Arcanum
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          YOU MA'AM ARE WRONG. it was the capital of Byzantium. : CoRDS
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            The city was called Byzantium. Constantine thought it was sweet, and so moved his capital city there, re... : Vantage
            • i am never wrong. : CoRDS
      • that's nobody's business but the Turks : zerog83
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      Tokyo used to be Edo. Persia <-> Iran. Zambia and Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia, which was named... : cerealSAM2
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        Also, Oslo used to be called Christiania. : cerealSAM2
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          wow, I didn't know that. There's a Christiania in norway, it's very liberal : moshman
          • You're probably thinking about the Christiania in Copenhagen. It's still pretty liberal, but authorities ... : Tissen
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        Zaire -> DR Congo : MamiyaOtaru
        • Congo -> Zaire -> DR Congo : cdrd
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      Beijing used to be Peking Mumbai used to be Bombay : action wombmate
      • No, I am bombay, there are others, false prophet. : bombay
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      Brooklyn is named after Breukelen, now a small city just below Amsterdam. : Bamii
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        also, harlem http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=haarlem&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=... : papaskot
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          Yeah, forgot about that one. Kami's link below has em all. : Bamii
          • COLLECT THEM ALL. O wait, we stopped doing that. : [7]kami
    • Probably one of the most interesting name changes is Saint Petersburg in Russia though. It used to be Pet... : Bamii
    • And how about Burma and Myanmar? : Bamii
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland : [7]kami
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      Siam -> Thailand : MamiyaOtaru
      • also, Tanganyika + Zanzibar = Tanzania : MamiyaOtaru
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    Why they changed it, I can't say. : .faxen
    • people just liked it better that way : aeg1x
    • People just liked it better that way. : watcherxp
    • people just liked it better that way... : erebus
    • People just liked it better that way.... : RogerDandy
    • ' better that way.... : cncpun
    • pea pole juice tike tit butter hat weigh : papaskot
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    I still like the Tiny Toons music video of that old song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-KcF3Rkv8 : guido anchovy
    • talk about shows that NEED to be on dvd :( : creep
  • We (the dutch) traded New Amsterdam for Suriname :( : Bamii
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  well they found it first : filthysock
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    Yeah I just figured that they called it Australia when they discovered it. It seems they were not that im... : thecray
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      You mean Terra Australias Ignota? :-) : Aragoat
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        Fuck, Terra Australis Ignota. Damn my indoctrination forcing me to type Australia whenever I can. :-( : Aragoat
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          Wikipedia seems to imply that Terra Australis Ignota is just a generic latin term for Unknown Land of the... : thecray
          • Yeah, it used to be thought that for the world to be balanced, there needed to be a large landmass in the... : Aragoat
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY-u15WmQBE : drucifer
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  I just found out that the guy who voices Snake in the MGS series also wrote the X-men movie screenplay. : smax
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    He voiced Nikko Belic as well, I think. : freakynipples69
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      David Hayter? definitely not : zerog83
      • guess not. : freakynipples69
  • *And* stared in the horrible sequel to the horrible live action movie based on the "Guyver" anime. : RevRaven
  • And Watchmen. : Creepin_Jeezus
• Could of sworn it was called Florida. Hm. : freakynipples69
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-KcF3Rkv8 : TroZ
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  Sri Lanka; formerly Sir Lanka : zerog83
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    So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand... : skinlab133
    • <3 : avatar_58
    • I fucking love you : zerog83
    • God I fucking love that movie. : Arctic Fox
  • And formerly Paul Anka : Dschinghis Khan
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  Where's Zealand? : edgewise
  • old name for denmark : filthysock
  • It's a province of the Netherlands. It was the second most powerful after Holland, so the two islands we... : MONGOLOID
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  Now it's called America Jr. : Godhatesfatpeople
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    wait, i thought taht was canada? : arcane_
    • That's America's Gay Hat : Godhatesfatpeople
  • Negative. It is America's Repressed Gay Brother. : anhero
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  Texas used to be called "Mexico". : Goto10
  • New Mexico: Not Much Different Than The Old One : Juno
• Yes. We gave you countries, cities and slaves. : [7]kami

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  Here, blow your mind some more: http://lifehacker.com/5386953/lifehackers-complete-guide-to-windows-7 : Bean
  • bookmarked : gorphine
  • lot of info there, thanks : vynn
  • sweet. good find. : Korban
  • Amazing. I wish I had windows 7. I'm ready to move on from xp. : treefingers1
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  your mind will blown again when you realize how pointless it is and then you consider the wasted dollars ... : filthysock
  • I actually find myself using that feature a few times a day, especially since it works in reverse too (sh... : Bean
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    Yep. It's a pretty useless feature as is aero peak. Why the hell do I want to look at my desktop if I can... : boarder2
    • It's useful if you use gadgets like post-its or the weather or whatnot. : Bean
    • I think Aero peak is great. Not so much for the desktop (though that is useful if you have lots of gadget... : nudel
  • I like most of the other gestures/changes but, yeah, Aero Shake is one I only ever trigger by accident an... : nudel
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  Double clicking the top edge of a window to make it take up the whole screen vertically is easily my most... : snuff
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    you can also drag the top edge to the window for the same effect : filthysock
    • Yeah but I use dual screens with taskbar along the left of my main so I can't use that : snuff
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    blown x2. : KxRook
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      You can also drag a window to the left or right of your screen. Once the arrow hits the side of your scre... : [7]kami
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        This doesn't work on dualscreen monitors. : ysbreker
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          It works at the far edges, but not the interior ones between two screens. You can still use Win-Left/R... : nudel
          • windows key + arrows is probably the better option with 2 monitors :) : [7]kami
  • it pisses me off that OSX doesn't do this. DAMN IT STEVE, steal that shit from windows already. : supaslasha
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    This has been a Windows feature since forever, hasn't it? : IndigoAK
    • He's not talking about double clicking the title bar to maximize the whole window to the screen. He's tal... : boarder2
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    I love how they managed to not fuck this up too. It would have been so simple for this to have been ad... : Beady
    • Actually, they *did* fuck it up slightly at the API level. :) The new "semi-maximized" state that they... : nudel
• I did not know that, thank you! : dumbacid
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  Title bar? : dognose
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    I think it was Freudian. : anhero
    • ps - I am sad noone else understood your joke : anhero
• i wish tab completion still worked in explorer : skryte
• How about windows key and left or right arrow Windows key Left, alt + Tab, windows Key right : Smellsy
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  Must be a RTM thing only? Doesnt work in my beta copy. Or perhaps its because im doing it over RDP... : SigENeaT
  • Its the RDP. It worked in the last beta, or at least the RCs. : re-verse
• hah, doesn't work for me. Probably part of aerosnap which I disabled. Couldn't drag windows passed the ... : JuffoWup
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  I have a CRT monitor and can't shake very hard. Do i need to download a special driver? : Wyvern
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    lol wut : vynn
    • /\/\/\/\ IAWTLOLWUT : Old_Fart
  • loaol : xsii
• is that like a "fuckkk" feature? im not sure. : chilln
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  I have windows 7 and this doesn't work... I click the title bar (as if to drag it) and shake it left and ... : Pandilex
  • doesn't work for me either but i'm using the classic theme : skryte
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    oh man youre really missing out! *shakes window* weeeeeeeeeeee : steve_o
    • Shake it, baby! : nudel

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• Messed up. : ant_hillbilly
• the hell? : the_doctor
• How awful. : Freon
• Crazy : angrytaxman
• whaaaaaat, hope thats not true : Helios150
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  Yeah people are fags why isn't everyone watching Conan don't be fags, America. : SpaecKow
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    Wasn't Leno doing really badly? : MagicWishMonkey
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      On his new show? Yeah I think so. : SpaecKow
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        Not even that; I thought his Tonight Show was behind Letterman consistently in the ratings. : the archvile
        • pretty sure it wasn't : MamiyaOtaru
        • Leno was beating Letterman by a nominal amount, but Letterman is now beating Conan if I understand. And ... : Freon
• I'm still trying to figure out how Leno was #1 for so long at 11:30 if his 10 pm sucks so hard. Fuck NBC... : RyDogg1
• if this means conan goes back to his old show and jimmy fallon gets murdered in real life then I'm all fo... : AllYourBase
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  Conan better get his $50M that was stipulated guaranteed if he didn't get the spot. Fucked up they are d : Lunatic Angelic
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    Almost smells like a conspiracy. Give him the spot for a few months to meet the contract requirements, t... : riptyde
    • NBC is a giant mess; maybe they're just trying to wreck it prior to the Comcast acquisition. : the archvile
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  who cares? Craig Ferguson is the only late show worth watching. : mwasher
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    Yes he is so hilarious the way he sings and whispers to the camera. : heartsauce
    • I like how he carries shit on from episode to episode. I cracked up when he started the episode 2 nights... : mwasher
  • fact! : AlexXdude
  • Truth : rob-o-cop
  • I do like Ferguson but if this is true Conan is getting screwed really bad, unless he gets his old time b... : TempusT
  • I don't watch late shows, but Craig's easily the best of the ones on now. : AgentPothead
• good can we please get masterbating bear back please : iwonthelottery
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  Wait Conan hasnt been doing well? : bolneze
  • In the eyes of Nielsen raters and curmudgeon executives, I guess. It's sad, because I crack up hysterica... : the archvile
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    I'm trying, man, but fuckers got no sense of humor. : Conan
    • Poor Coco. : ThomW
  • being buried by Letterman : RikiTiki2
  • His head is even bigger in HD : CoRDS
• I blame old people for liking Leno but not Conan. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
• Shitty. I wonder if this breaks a deal Conan had in some way. : dmason
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  Goodbye Jimmy Fallon. : inf3d3l
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    Welcome back Zach Galifianakis. : spiderfill
    • hellooooooooo nurse : nem00
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      I would pay a trillion dollars for a five-night-a-week Between Two Ferns. : Deathlove
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        I would pay this as well. : sKetchflow
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          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_World_with_Zach : CrimsonHandHiro
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            Wow, that one really flew under my radar. Of course I didn't have cable in '02 so maybe that would explai... : gooblerampling
            • I wish this was on youtube :( : scottythejock
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    That would be the only positive thing to come of this : megarust32
    • haha, good point : smax
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      Hell no. Fallon's gotten really good. And he's the last best hope for gaming in the mainstream. : Deathlove
      • he airs good metal bands, and maybe he is good for gaming, but he is painfully unfunny : megarust32
  • I think they'd probably be keeping Jimmy and Conan would be SOL. They don't care that much about the 12:3... : mechanicalgrape
  • I hated him when he atarted but he's gotten pretty good. : Super Sparker
  • I watched him last night and thought it was alright. : WhatIsThisFor
  • Fallon is actually getting good. : soggybagel
  • The Wheel of Carpet Samples is the greatest thing to hit late late night. I despised Jimmy Fallon, but he... : DooBall
  • I tuned in the other day and he was really funny. So he's getting better. : Dschinghis Khan
  • You're assuming Leno and Conan will just move back...an easy move for Leno but not so for Conan. : sanchez
• Uh oh. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Its not like conan has any run-in show... its fucking another talk-show before him... : chilln
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  Yeah, WWTDD sums it up. Jay Leno's ratings are like cancer to NBC, so there's no audience going into Cona... : snuff
  • This but this thinking is BullShit! Three hours of talk shows? Who could be forced to care? Sucks for ... : TempusT
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  The more I think about this the less I like it : rosewood
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    Maybe if they pay him his money he will go back to writing Simpson's episodes to have something to do in ... : sigpro
    • He should write Futurama episodes : MagicWishMonkey
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  Maybe conan will take over the late show on CBS and rape leno. : skitzo
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    conan really should be the followup/eventual replacement to letterman - their humor is much more compatib... : re-verse
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      and they both hosted late night : RikiTiki2
      • indeed. Ahh, the way things should have been :( : re-verse
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    Well, Letterman's contract expires this year I think, but everyone is expecting for him to get another on... : K1Bond007
    • i thought letterman extended his contract through 2012 : porp
• Leno truly has a knack for being the most useless host that no one even pays attention to until he's scre... : thebigbeefsandwich
• Who is in prison? : rosewood
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  i wish the change never happened to begin with : papaskot
  • I agree. Conan was better later. : ThomW
• I think they should fight to the death as an undercard to the Mayweather/Paquiao fight. : Thornfist
• After reading 3/4 of your all's post, I realized that I do not have a life. : RuffasBluetain
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  who really cares? both had their day in the sun. lets get some fresh meat in here. : mindshot
  • Like Jimmy Fallon? Screw you. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• I like Conan, Leno has been ok, but Fallon has been getting much better. The local NBC affiliate in Ph... : jbt11