Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a great browser, and I have converted several people to adopting it as their main browser. It is especially great for those who regularly use a lower-end laptop because it boots up and loads pages so much faster than other browsers.

However, there are a number of things about Google Chrome that I find very annoying. No, I'm not talking about lack of add-on support or how some websites don't work quite right in Google Chrome. That's called being a new browser and the price we pay for early adoption. Add-ons and website compatability will come in time.

Nope, I'm talking about poor and/or awkward choices by the developers that tend to cramp my style while I'm going about my daily tasks. Here are seven things I run across on a regular basis that I find especially annoying in Google Chrome:

* RSS feeds are invisible. There's no way to tell if an RSS feed for a page exists unless the web page itself presents a button. Unfortunately, many web pages don't display an RSS button because popular browsers like IE and Firefox display an RSS button automatically when a feed exists.

* XML is not displayed correctly. While Chrome will properly format an RSS feed, straight XML will come out all garbled with the code stripped out and the content bunched together.

* The find feature ignores form fields. Apparently, Google doesn't realize how nice it is to search through a memo field for a specific piece of text.

* Locked text and memo fields disable the ability to copy to the clipboard. While most people might not run into this one, it is a real pain for anyone that does run across it regularly. And it is doubly annoying because it makes no sense to disable the copy feature.

* Choose file functionality. Google Chrome changes the file name from being kept in a text box to being kept in a label field. This results in the file name not being saved if you hit the back button, which can be quite annoying at times.

* Tabs can't be dynamically saved on exit. This is all or nothing in Chrome -- you either set it to always open with the last set of tabs or to open to a standardized home page. This means if you only want to save your tabs in certain circumstances, you'll have to flip the global setting, which is both annoying and awkward.

* Form resubmission page. This one is mostly annoying because it is poorly designed. If you need to resubmit a form, you can reload the page after receiving the warning. But where's the resubmit button for folks who aren't as web savvy? C'mon, it's not hard to present a button!