Google Chrome : Java Glossary

Google has released an open source browser based on Apple’s Safari rendering engine. The current version is 53.0.2785.92 Last revised/verified: 2016-09-06. It comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Just to confuse you, it will install the 64-bit version in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe".

Advantages

• It is the fastest browser
• Google translate integrates beautifully. It automatically translates as you go. You can flip back and forth between the language and English with the click of a button.
• Available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
• When you enter the name of a file to browse, it lets you use any combination of / and \ in the URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
• It multi-threaded with isolation between the threads so if one goes berserk, it takes only one window down, not the whole browser.
• It generates native code on the fly for JavaScript much the way HotSpot works for Java.
• It has a JavaScript console and a JavaScript debugger. Its whole focus is improved JavaScript.
• It has constantly updated lists of sites that are malware or phishing sites.
• It is very good at importing bookmarks from other browsers or from html.
• When you reload a page, it does not make you grant permissions all over again.
• Like other browsers it has add-on apps, called extensions, though not as many as Firefox. Most of them are just silly diversions, not productivity tools.
• Like other browsers Chrome has themes, a special type of extension. Chrome’s are more practical without a lot of distracting contrast. Most of them are pretty gross, car and girl. I liked Snow Fox, A Bit Windy and Tree. Browsers generally work best with light colored themes. With a black one, it is hard to see the buttons. The only time you see the picture is when you open a new tab.
• Chrome can import/export its settings to other browsers.
• You write add-ons in JavaScript and JSON (Java Script Object Notation). This may not sound like a plus, but compared with writing XML (extensible Markup Language), it is.
• It has a clean look. Most of the screen is for displaying the document. It does not use up a lot of space with bars and buttons.
• It has its own Flash player which automatically updates with Chrome. You cannot update it separately.
• Chrome’s inspect element is excellent. It helps me rapidly figure out why my CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is not doing what I expect. I use it on other people’s sites to find out the full URL they used to create logo images with CSS. I can then easily download them to use as logos on my own site. Without it, I would have to use FastStone, which would lose any transparency info. Browsers will usually tell you the URL of images created with <img but not with CSS.

Disadvantages

• It has no edit button to let you edit the current page in your favourite text editor. Every other browser has one. This is a showstopper! The Chrome people think of this as a feature. Chrome cannot be used to modify files even via an external editor. This makes it very safe. They are being pedantic twits. When you are creating HTML/CSS markup, you need to go back and forth between editor and browser. Chrome won’t let you invoke the editor for a page you see. You must capture the file: url and paste it into your editor, converting it to a file name if your editor cannot handle URLs (Uniform Resource Locators).
• It does not support Java Applets with the usual Java version 1.7, even though it claims to work. You must install a special Chrome version of Java including JRE (Java Runtime Environment) version 1.6.0_29. Once that is done, Chrome will start using your 1.8.0_131. I gather the Chrome version of Java includes a Plugin for Chrome, which is the crucial piece. It should be bundled with Chrome itself. This problem may now be cleared up. Try installing your Javas before you install Chrome.
• It says it does not support Java Web Start, but it does. It just takes several clicks to launch.
• It does not support classes or styles on <COL tags.
• You would think if you hovered over a link it would provide a tooltip as to where that link goes. It does not. You would think right clicking the link would let you discover where it is going. It does not. However, if you hover over link, in faint type, at the bottom left of the screen, it will tell you the partial url.
• It ignores width in CSS styles. You must use min-width.
• It crashes often, then quickly recovers and carries on.
• It sometimes takes a long time to start because it is resolving proxy.
• If you edit an image, you can’t proofread the new version without exiting Chrome and restarting. Reloading the page will not suffice.
• You cannot exit with a download in progress, without terminating the download.

• browser colgroup support

  Browser Colgroup Support
  browser	version	col class supported	col align supported	HTML5 entities supported
  Firefox	59.0.3
  Chrome	53.0.2785.92
  Opera	48.0.2685.52
  SeaMonkey	2.49.2
  Safari	5.1.7
  Avant	2018:1
  Edge	25,10586.0.0
  IE 11	11.0.9600.17239
  IE 10	10.02.9200.16521
  IE 9	9.0.8112.16421
  IE 8	8.0.7601.17514
  IE 7	7.0.6000

  Those browsers marked with an x all have a bug. They will not render <col class="xxxx">s correctly. The ones with a tick render it correctly. The Opera people say this is a feature not a bug. The language lawyers claim the W3 spec says that the browser is supposed to ignore the color attribute from the <col class. Logically, I think the <col styles should apply to the entire column, but not to <th rows. In addition Firefox, SeaMonkey, Safari and Flock also ignore the <col align attribute. Opera and IE render it properly.

  Firefox, SeaMonkey and Opera support almost all the HTML5 entities. Chrome and Safari support many of them.

  colgroup test

  Colgroup Test
  	Style Test	Alignment Test
  On Every row	style	alignment
  Using Colgroup	style	alignment

  If both cells in the left hand Style Test column are the same colour, then your browser (the one you are using now to view this page) supports <col class=.

  If both cells in the right hand Alignment Test column right-align, then your browser supports <col align= correctly.

  Dreamweaver lets you apply a css style to all rows individually. Last revised/verified: 2018-05-06

• When the download is done, it won’t notify you. You have to guess when it is complete and you have to go find the file and execute it. It does not make it easy for you to run the install. I can’t believe Google could screw up something so basic that every other browser does in its sleep.
• Some programs such as Avant and JPSoft Take Command are updated frequently using the same downloadable name for each version. Chrome renames your download to avoid overwriting the old one. If are not aware it has done this, you will just install the old version again, and gradually accumulate obsolete update downloads. You have to manually modify the download name to get Chrome to write over top of the old download. On paper, this sounds like a good idea, but in practice, Chrome’s behaviour is almost never what you want.
• When you save an image it takes 12+ seconds before it even asks you where to store the image. It is similarly slow starting downloads.
• It cannot print white writing on a black background. Use Firefox instead.
• There is no 64-bit version.
• It works only on Windows and works only with Java 1.8.0_131+
• It is based on an older Safari engine which still has a serious security flaw.
• There does not appear to be any way to customise the toolbars.
• It does not have a way to launch Java Web Start automatically.
• It does not yet support SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) client authentication, though it does support access to SSL end EVSSL (Extended Verification Secure Socket Layer) secure sites.
• It is quite slow at saving images.
• Sometimes your computer slows to a crawl. If you look in the task manager, you will see dozens of copies of Chrome running.

Tips

• Launching a file from the command line. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -- "%1"
• Launching a URL from the command line. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" "%1"
• Chrome has two different mechanisms to control which pages appear when you start up and which appear when you click home. They are not necessarily the same. You control the former in settings under on startup and the latter under Appearance of all things.
• If you visit a malformed page, you may not be able to get away from it, even if you restart Chrome. The only way I found out of the problem was to uninstall and reinstall Chrome. Chrome will restore your bookmarks automatically.
• To report a bug, click the Chrome tools hamburger icon ⇒ About Google Chrome ⇒ report an issue.

• If the Chrome home button disappears or takes you to the wrong page:

  1. In the top-right corner, click the Chrome tools hamburger icon
  2. Select Settings.
  3. Under Appearance, check the Show Home button.
  4. Click change to change the home page URL.
• If Chrome refuses to start, go into the task manager and delete any Chrome applications and Chrome processes. If the problem persists, reboot. If the problem still persists, uninstall any questionable Chrome add-ons. Scan the list of apps in the control panel or Ace utilities and uninstall any you do not recognise. If the problem still persists, try a different browser.
• In the top right corner, click the Chrome tools hamburger icon ⇒ Tools ⇒ Extensions to manage add-ons.
• To view source, right click. That will let you view, but not edit.
• It is missing a stop button. You stop by hitting the Esc key.
• Configure larger fonts under Options ⇒ Minor Tweaks.
• Instead of installing itself in X:\Program Files (x86)\Chrome\chrome.exe it installs itself in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
• It puts its data files in "C:\Users\user\AppData\local\google\Chrome\User Data\"
• To search Google, type the words you want to search for in the address bar, if it does not look like a file name or a URL, Chrome treats it is a query.

Certificates

Chrome maintains its own list of SSL root certificates independent of Windows. You can manage it with:

1. Click the hamburger icon
2. Click settings.
3. At the bottom, click Show Advanced Settings.
4. Under HTTPS/SSL click manage certificates.

Denmark

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
~ William Shakespear (1564-04-23 1616-04-23 age:52) Marcellus in Hamlet Act I scene iv

There is something a little fishy about Google. First they discontinued support for Java Applets, but maintained the fiction they were by having a button to turn it on. It does not work in beta either. They have fiddled with Java Web Start to make it clumsy to use, rather than a one-click as intended. Why are they trying to ruin Java Applets while simultaneously promoting Java for use inside Android cellphones?

Second, Google Chrome seems to be the only browser that can deal with Google Adsense and Google Translate reacting so slowly. There is a technical reason for this — their superior multi-thread JavaScript engine. However, it is almost as though the deliberately hobbled Google AdSense so that Chrome would look better compared with other browsers. They properly should fix AdSense, Translate and the like to work properly in any browser when the Google server is slow or the proxy server is slow.

RFE (Request For Enhancement)

• Chrome should stop dicking around and run Java Applets and Java Web Start right out the box.
• It should only require one click per page ever to OK the running of signed Applets. It should require no clicks to run unsigned Applets.
• When you hover over a link, Chrome should display the URL. You should be able to know where you are going before you commit yourself to going there.
• By clicking a button, you should be able to open the current webpage in your favourite text editor.
• When you are downloading a file, you should see how big it is before you commit to the download.
• You should be able to view the raw webpage, before JavaScript has modified it.
• Chrome should let you close all the tabs without exiting the program. A kludge to get around that is to click new tab, then close others.
• If you accidentally close the last tab, Chrome exits. It shouldn’t.
• If you ever change your mind and want to download files to examine them, or run them later, rather than execute them, you are out of luck with Chrome. You will have to use some other browser.