Thursday, February 20, 2020

Chrome Browser Annoyances

Posted: 10/26/2018  Corrected: 11/26/2018 Updated: 2/20/2020, 12/3/2018

System & Environment Info

I am using Fedora Linux on a notebook. I usually have at least three instances of the browser opened at any time with at least 10-20 tabs across the three instances.

Annoyances

I meant to write this blog post for some time. There are plenty of annoyances (many I have forgotten in the meantime). More will be added ...

  1. Print to PDF file has a serious limit of a maximum of around 50 pages or so. If the webpage content translates into more than about 50 pages when printing to PDF file stalls and will not complete the preview. Printing the same webpage using Firefox browser succeeds (12/3/2018)
  2. Cached stuff is poorly managed. At around 300 MB of cached images and files browser becomes sluggish in responding. After I clear this images and files cache things improve to some extent.
  3. For many years now, you cannot log in with different Google accounts in two different instances. Switching between accounts is a pain. Thus, I resort to opening an incognito window, to log into my other Google account. Very cumbersome!
  4. Saving a web page as a PDF file would be a nice feature (Correction 11/26/2018: To save a PDF file is actually possible through the print function)
  5. Drop file functionality to upload a file from your computer is not working anymore for about two weeks or longer (2/20/2020). No feedback at all as to why it is not working anymore

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