How many tabs do you open every day?
I usually keep one Chrome window open for each client (usually 5-7 at once) with multiple tabs on each, sometimes up to 20 or so. Plus a couple of misc windows for other stuff like YouTube, Lemmy, etc.
It’s probably not efficient, but it’s better than continually opening and closing tabs when I have to switch from one client to another.
Oh yeah, I agree with all that!
Yeah, there was that brief period, maybe 4-6 years where each release had at least something exciting. I guess they’ve just run out of genuinely useful/innovative stuff to add.
Partly it’s aesthetic - it takes up so much room!
Partly it’s preferential - I’m not keen on machine generated answers being prioritised over actual sources.
Mainly though it’s because when I do a search, I usually know what website I expect/want to get to, and just want that available to click immediately.
Seconding Hermit, it’s a really useful tool for websites you visit often enough to wish they had an app.
I mostly use it for a football ⚽ forum I’m on, and it’s a better experience than opening my browser and going to the site each time, as there are some degrees of customisation of the experience.
I’m not asking for anything. This isn’t a support request. I found something I find useful and wanted to share it. That’s all.
a lifetime of always fighting google
I think that might just be verging on hyperbole, no?
I never said it fixed anything in the long run. It allows me (and probably others) to do things the way I want to do them. If it doesn’t apply to everyone, that’s ok.
Apparently so. Oh well, the info will still hopefully help people who’re fine with their choices :-)
That’s fair enough - as long as users have options then all good as far as I’m concerned :-)
This is like those 20 minute videos for a problem that can be fixed in 20 sec
Hence my TLDR. It’s a 6-point bullet list (and the last one is optional).
Maybe I should have put that last line up the top instead…
is really does make more sense to just use Firefox and DDG
I take the point - but it doesn’t make sense if you still prefer Chrome/Google to those overall and just want to change one aspect of it. This is just a way to improve the experience for people who are mostly happy with what they use and not interested in changing from it. It’s great that we as users have that choice, that’s how it should be.
Feel like I covered that at the bottom.
I do think however that it would be worth coming up with a proper name for the current symbol.
The Fedigram maybe?
I loved the rear-mounted sensor on my old Pixel 2XL, as it could be configured to allow some swipe gestures too. I had mine set to open notifications on swipe down, which was really useful.
Agreed, I don’t see the point of this tbh.
Slightly off topic, but there was a time when Keep did exactly what I wanted wrt making lists. I could say Ok Google, make a list and then walk round my kitchen naming items to add to the list it worked great.
Then they changed it so that instead of going into Keep, it went into Shopping List, which was ok if it was for groceries, but no use if I was making a list of, say, things to pack for a trip.
I could see the Gemini integration being useful there, but ideally only at the end, when I had already made my list and it could say, “Hey, you forgot x, y or z…”
According to Google Lens it’s a Great Diving Beetle larva. Cannot verify.
EDIT - tried again, and this time it says it’s a Rove Beetle. So I wouldn’t put toouch faith in either result tbh.
Thanks 👍