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Look at the image. This site is not on the white list. I have seen this happening on a few sites.

To pin a tab easily, just right click on the tab and select pin.

Some links will open in a new window and there is no tab. But don’t worry, just right click on the title bar and select to convert to tab. Now you can bring that tab back to the main Chrome window. Useful for Pandora popups.

The fight continues…

If I try to access a Silverlight application that is hosted on pretty much any web site, Chrome handles it without a problem. But when I try to access a Microsoft web site that has a Silverlight application, the webpage complains that the plugin has expired. Expired?

This is the page that complains. That page throws a message box. Not good. Now if you do not respond quick enough, Chrome will popup another message box asking if you want to stop the unresponsive plugin. Not good either. In this case it is the browser asking the question. But you never know. Message boxes should be banned from html and java script and also from all plugins. Only the browser process should dish out message boxes.

In the above page I think it was MSTECHED site ad or something that was causing the problem.

I clicked yes on the button that takes me to the Microsoft web page for downloading Silverlight. That web page says this browser is not compatible with Silverlight. Well, not according to all the Silverlight applications I have used on the web. Everything works fine.

There is a clear distinction between fair competition and animosity. These two are showing the latter with elementary school maturity.

You may already know this but I thought I would share this for people who hasn’t noticed.

Usually when you don’t want to lose the current page, you right click on a link and select open in a new tab or window. But then you need to open and close many tabs or windows. This opening and closing costs a lot of system resources espcially in Chrome where each tab is a separate process. But Chrome has a better method. Drag and drop links in to a tab or window.

Let’s say you are on a web page. You see a link you want to open. You can drag the link to the top of the window and drop it on to the + sign or any other tab. The link will open in that tab. You can go back the page and drag and drop another link the same tab or a new + sign.

It is also possible to drag a tab out of the browser to create a new window. Likewise you can drag tabs between two different windows.

You can also rearrange the tabs by dragging them to new locations.

Now you know why I decided to ditch internet explorer. Forefox couldn’t do that even with it’s better standards conformance. Of course, Internet Explorer is the most experienced person in the block, so I need to go back there whenever Chrome craps out. Like when I wanted to download the DVD image of Open Suse 11.1. My clicks were vaninshing in to thin air. No error message, nothing. IE started the download but crapped out at 320 MB. I got through using FlashGet and IE. But that is another story.