{"id":1811,"date":"2011-07-25T15:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2011-07-25T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:25:48","slug":"google-chrome-we-know-what-you-want-and-you-cant-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome:  We know what you want and you can&#8217;t have it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/chromium\/issues\/detail?id=66129\">http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/chromium\/issues\/detail?id=66129<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow, case study for Google arrogance.<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;ve been playing with Fedora lately, I started using the Chrome browser.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also writing a new tool to replace my really old visual basic \/ IE based research tools.\u00a0\u00a0 The high level description is I read what I know about a station from my database, then open the station web site in an IFRAME.\u00a0\u00a0 I can then navigate around inside the iframe &#8211; looking for a stream, correcting an out-of-date 404 error, get the program schedule, etc&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 An IFRAME is essentially a web page inside a web page that operates independently &#8211; the polls I use are in an IFRAME so when you vote, it doesn&#8217;t have to reload the entire web page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When using my tool in Fedora\u00a0\/ Linux \/ Chrome, I noticed the right click is missing some very obvious and necessary things &#8211; what is the URL currently loaded in the IFRAME?, show me the source code, let me open this page in a new window\/tab outside of the current page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out the Chrome developers have decided you *don&#8217;t need* to be able to do that and they aren&#8217;t going to allow you to do it no matter how many people want it and how rational their justification is.\u00a0\u00a0 Google knows what you want, and you have no choice, so just shut up.<\/p>\n<p>yum\u00a0remove chrome<br \/>yum install firefox<\/p>\n<p>We always have choices.<br \/>buh-bye Chrome&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/chromium\/issues\/detail?id=66129 Wow, case study for Google arrogance. Because I&#8217;ve been playing with Fedora lately, I started using the Chrome browser. I&#8217;m also writing a new tool to replace my really old visual basic \/ IE based research tools.\u00a0\u00a0 The high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}