Chrome SUCKS on my Surface!

[xandros9]

LOL! No. It lunches ChromeOS overlay. Another tactic to push to you Google+, and ChromeOS into your face. Also, if you increase the DPI, it completely breaks. And ChromeOS is harder to use with touch, and all it does, is run Chrome web browser in a window, like if you were on the desktop.

sorry, I ditched chrome a while back and must be out of date.

 

[unstoppablekem]

so chrome has a Modern UI version, found in the menu. It says "Relaunch Chrome in Windows 8 Mode."
voila.

Not found on Chrome on my SP2.

 

[xandros9]

Not found on Chrome on my SP2.

that's odd, it shows up on my laptop

 

[rdubmu]

Not found on Chrome on my SP2.

It's there on my surface pro. It becomes the default browser and takes away the metro IE browser until you make it default again.


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[unstoppablekem]

It's there on my surface pro. It becomes the default browser and takes away the metro IE browser until you make it default again.


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I checked in that menu list. It isn't there for me


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[Armada]

Making it default is optional and modern IE going away is the fault if MS programming it that way, not Google.

 

[rdubmu]

I'll take a screen shot later and show you unstoppablekem


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[dversa]

Try this on Windows 8/8.1
Disable display scaling on high DPI settings

To enable this feature under Windows 8, follow the below procedure:
Right-click on the program's icon > properties.
Go to the Compatibility tab.
Check "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and click on Apply.

Hope it helps.

Some more reading on the subject.

 

[unstoppablekem]

Try this on Windows 8/8.1
Disable display scaling on high DPI settings

To enable this feature under Windows 8, follow the below procedure:
Right-click on the program's icon > properties.
Go to the Compatibility tab.
Check "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and click on Apply.

Hope it helps.

Some more reading on the subject.

I already did that awhile ago.

 

[onlysublime]

Google has no interest in Chrome taking advantage of Windows 8/8.1 features. They just want a platform for ChromeOS. It's the only reason why there's that lame Windows 8 mode.

It's time people push Chrome aside. Use any browser but Chrome. Heck, Firefox works much better with touch than Chrome. Firefox is much more agnostic than Google. Google abandoned their "don't be evil" a long long time ago.

 

[unstoppablekem]

I'll take a screen shot later and show you unstoppablekem


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Nvm, it now shows. It didn't before.


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[Nikumba]

Sorry for the thread necro, but I have just installed the latest Chrome Canary build and it has made all the text crisp and clear

Might be worth a look at that

Kimbie

 

[cdf3]

Sorry for the thread necro, but I have just installed the latest Chrome Canary build and it has made all the text crisp and clear

Might be worth a look at that

Kimbie

Thanks for suggesting Chrome Canary Build. Text looks so much better now. Text looks as crisp as Internet Explorer now.
Here's the link if anyone wants to give it a try.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html

 

[Nikumba]

Clad I could be of help

Kimbie

 

[YV Rao]

Windows Registry editing fixed the font thickness issue for me completely,
we can tune the font thicknes/darkness by calibrating FONTSMOOTHINGGAMMA value to
between 150 and 190 hexadecimal( 336 to 400 decimal )

- START -> RUN -> REGEDIT
- search for FONTSMOOTHINGGAMMA by keying "Ctrl F"
( will automatically take us to CurrentUser\ControlPanel\Desktop path)
- right-click mouse on FONTSMOOTHINGGAMMA on the rightside, Modify... enter any
thing between 150 and 190 hexadecimal.
(the Lower the value, the thicker the fonts.)
- close the REGEDIT tool
- LOGOFF and then LOGON

Now all the fonts are very thick & very dark in Chrome Browser.

But we must make sure that ClearType smoothing is enabled in Windows
( controlPanel -> personalization -> appearance ->
-> Effects -> ClearType smooth check (ticked box) )

OR alternately in RegEdit ...

FONTSMOOTHING = 2 FONTSMOOTHINGTYPE = 2 (in the Registry)
FONTSMOOTHINGORIENTATION = 1 for LCD-screen, 0 for CRT-screen

 

[andy roddy]

Sorry for the thread necro, but I have just installed the latest Chrome Canary build and it has made all the text crisp and clear

Might be worth a look at that

Kimbie

Does Canary fix the Chrome battery usage issues as well? It would be nice to be able to use Chrome again on an SP.

 

[Nikumba]

Does Canary fix the Chrome battery usage issues as well? It would be nice to be able to use Chrome again on an SP.

What issue are you referring to?

 

[xandros9]

What issue are you referring to?

I think he's referring to that Chrome timing or something bug that resulted in higher power consumption on a Windows PC, especially on battery-powered ones.
It got a bunch of press a while back,

I think it was since fixed, but I don't know.