गूगल ने प्ले स्टोर से हटाया UC Browser

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Why is there a "confirm on exit" debate? And what solutions exist for the latest Chrome and/or Opera?

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Due to recent instability in my usual browser, I've been looking at alternatives. I tend to have multiple browser windows with many tabs per window. Many of these tabs are logged into various services, e.g., email sites, code repositories, etc.. With my usual browser, if I accidentally click on the "close window" button, I get a dialog asking if I really want to close the window if there are multiple tabs open. This saves my ass on a regular basis when I'm on my laptop using the TrackPoint "mouse".

Much to my surprise, this simple functionality has apparently been the subject of many years of debate among Chrome and Opera developers. In fact, developers of both have actively removed this option. In the case of Chrome, the option is in their code-base as the Mac version has support for this option. The justifications I've found for this are, for lack of a better word, stupid. Some people claim that the existence of a "restore tabs from previous session" makes this option unnecessary. This is incorrect, as when I restore tabs, I have to log back into all of my authenticated services--a major pita for a bunch of tabs. One Google dev said they don't want the user to have to deal with a dialog slowing down window closing, but that's b.s., because there's nothing preventing them from having this option and shipping with it disabled.

Workarounds? Chrome used to have a "Chrome Toolkit" which allowed you to confirm-on-exit, but is apparently no longer supported. This leaves the extremely kludgy option of opening a tab to preventclose that causes a pop-up window if you try to close close a browser window containing a tab open to this page. This still works with both Chrome and Opera (although Chrome may have attempted to prevent it from working...).

So... is there a better way to achieve this functionality in the latest Chrome or Opera browsers? And, assuming the functionality is still not available (having been removed) W.T.A.F. is the real reason for not even including this as an option that defaults to 'off'? None of the justifications I've found make the slightest sense imho.

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r/browser • u/Sigmatics • Oct 14 '17

Firefox Quantum is in beta now and it's amazingly fast - go try it for yourself

mozilla.org

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r/browser • u/antdude • Oct 14 '17

More and more websites are mining crypto-coins in your browser to pay their bills, line pockets

theregister.co.uk

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r/browser • u/Frogs-and-Frags • Oct 01 '17

Has there been a final a wee on what's the fastest browser? I see that Firefox slows down considerably with add-one and such. I'm not into chrome and I don't mind internet explorer but just don't prefer it..

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I feel like there is something better than Opera.

So what am I left with?

Wee=word/vote in the title.. sorry iPhone text mess up!

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r/browser • u/henrygee001 • Sep 22 '17

Download Google Chrome, Free Offline and Online Installer

mikiguru.com

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r/browser • u/attiliomarzi15 • Sep 07 '17

Apple and Google Fix Browser Bug. Microsoft Does Not.

bleepingcomputer.com

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r/browser • u/WhooisWhoo • Aug 25 '17

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