Standard Feature Suggestions for Chrome! (Must Have's)
I'm not here to post useless suggestions on topics such as addons that block ads or outragous things that I think should be included in the chrome core. Chrome developers need to focus on getting the core functionality right before they even start thinking about adding anything new or exotic. Pretty much everything in this list already exists in other browsers.
- The ability to click a tab (such as the active tab), and have the ability to use the arrows to navigate between tabs. Works well when you have multiple images open in different tabs.
- Middle-mouse scrolling. In most browsers including other applications like adobe reader, holding the middle mouse button allows easy scrolling either up-and-down and left-and-right.
- Improved bookmark management and the ability to access your bookmarks without displaying the bookmark.
- "Home" button should be on by default. A lot of average computer users will feel lost without this and probably won't know to turn the feature on in the options.
- The ability to change the behaviour of links that want to open in a new window (ie. "_blank"). Options should include "In new window", "In new tab" and "In same window".
- Same as above but for opening webpages via shortcuts or html files on your computer. For example, currently clicking an internet shortcut on my desktop launches the page in a new tab when I'd prefer it open in a new window.
- The javascript console/inspector should match the look and feel of the rest of chrome. At the moment its ugly and now well thought out, and as a result usability is greatly reduced.
- I have no idea why Chrome is installed in the users local profile path. Storing multiple installations on one machine for each user seems counter intuitive. Change the future of browsing, but please do not change how programs should be installed under windows.
- When selecting text at the edge of a textarea field, dragging the mouse just a outside the textarea causes either everything above or below your selection to be selected. This is expected behaviour, but it's way too sensitive in chrome. You should have to drag your mouse much further outside the textarea to get this behaviour.
- The builtin chrome spell checker works, but it doesn't allow you to do anything (ie. Pick a suggestion, Add the word to the dictionary, ignore the mistake)
- One of my more outragous suggestions. Developers should consider implementing multi-threading into the download engine. With internet connections getting faster and faster, it's becoming increasingly difficult to use all your available bandwidth over a single http stream. If implementing this into the core of chrome has ramifications (such as upset webmasters), then I think google should consider making an official addon for this which blends seamlessly into Chrome.
That's pretty much it.
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Originally Posted by Wardrop
