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Google Chrome - too many tabs open, becomes iconized and closed when selected.
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 7304 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 3 |
Apparently having 8 GB of RAM memory is meant to satisfy most users needs. But in this instance, when using Google Chrome and having too many tabs open in a single browser window makes the selection boxes for the tabs at the top very small in 1024 * 768 resolution mode. When selecting a tab using the mouse and not even clicking the box, whether or not it is the current one, I end up clicking on the (x) (or close button) for the tab instead. Also the browser itself must be selected if your system is not wise enough to make a separation or difference between the web-browser window or tab currently open and preferably maximized in its window and possibly you having clicked somewhere on the desktop (that is the Start-menu at the bottom) instead, making this line at the bottom the active part or selection instead. If I use the mouse carefully with the correct tab selected instead, I will get a small light-yellowish box with a text like "Create a new thread" being visible. That is not too bad. The only problem is that this field becomes that small that when in a hurry or at some other inappropriate time I end up clicking the X button instead and by this closing the tab and possibly the whole window or maybe browser. Here a better alternative or solution should be available. What I am having right now is not working very well when the load becomes high. |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
Time to get out those keyboard shortcuts then. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/157179?hl=en ctrl-tab or ctrl-page down will move to the next tab. |
bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 7304 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 3 |
Thanks, arkayn! Tried just one more thing. Probably more things left to go here. Tried clicking on such an iconized tab at the top avoiding the X which closes a given tab and makes it lost (and not deleted according to the thread title) until restoring it from a pull-down menu. To be more specific: Holding down the mouse on the tab and dragging it down makes the tab open in a window of its own. This window did not maximize, however. Getting the window back again where it came from apparently became a little more tricky. Did I perhaps lose it or not when it comes to the tab? For now I am not sure whether or not the tab became lost, but I happen to know about the "Recent tabs" function or feature available on the "---" menu (really three medium sized thickness horizontal bars above each other to the right of the address bar - it is a pull-down menu likewise and located just below the Bookmark pull-down sub-menu). Also another irritating bug is the not too commonly used DOS-window box available from Windows (really the DOS-prompt) which now has become part of Windows by means of the cmd.com command rather than the previous command.com for the same. When having more than one page of text in such a box, here such a window becomes either in "restore" mode or "maximized". I am not able to get such a DOS-prompt window full-screen under Windows. The little problem being experienced here is that when using the mouse and dragging the scroll-box to the right either up or down, it really goes way too fast and I am slipping on the mouse when doing so. A small annoyance that better could be fixed by means of a software patch or update from Microsoft. |
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