|
The latest non-dev release has the options to "Relaunch in Windows8 mode" and "Relaunch in desktop mode".
I have to wonder though, how much more bloat can they shove into the browser becomes things become severely broken. After all, pre 23 appeared to work fine in both modes, Starting from the tiles opened in Win8 mode, starting from a desktop shortcut or taskbar shortcut opened in desktop mode.
Was this a change for the sake of change, or are there other benefits to this change that I'm overlooking?
|
|
|
|
|
Here[^]
---------------------------------
I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
|
|
|
|
|
|
VAT Returns, says it all.
---------------------------------
I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
|
|
|
|
|
Step away from them now, get out the doughnuts and work on your FAT returns! 
|
|
|
|
|
seriously? no one noted that thanks to the drop of aero and the new desing windows is now much more power saver and fast?
any app that goes metro has a easier interface and can drop fancy effects like transparecy, that helps on performance.
converselly, the desktop mode has features not yet available to the "Windows 8" mode.
even my father can use the pc without asking for help every time a message pops up now 
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
|
|
|
|
|
Sentenryu wrote: no one noted that thanks to the drop of aero and the new desing windows is now much more power saver and fast?
Nope, never noticed.
But then with a quad core and a GTX580 running at 100% utilisation 24/7 running background folding, it is obviously not something I tend to worry about. In fact, what carbon footprint, AMG Rocks!
|
|
|
|
|
The AMG does, indeed, rock, but I'll stick with the Range Rover (Westminster not Sport).
|
|
|
|
|
Sweet. I could do with one of those for going skiing once the snow comes. I been looking at old Landy's lately as a run it to the death motor.
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah. I can't wait for the snow to come. Bring it on.
|
|
|
|
|
I've a I5 with a ATI card (not sure the model, it came with the notebook, but it has 1gb and 128bits (not a hardware guy myself, not sure if this numbers really matter)).
sometimes Win7 shows a strange bug where the entire screen stops responding to mouse, not even showing the animations. sadly, i found this bug in the win8 marketplace too 
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
|
|
|
|
|
You completely missed Dave's point. He wasn't debating Windows 8. He was asking why they now had two modes that don't seem to offer anything over what was there before. Like Dave, I use Chrome on Windows 8 and it works perfectly, so why have they decided to offer these options which don't seem to make any difference whatsoever?
|
|
|
|
|
Phew, I was beginning to wonder if I had missed my own point! 
|
|
|
|
|
I haven't upgraded Chrome yet - at least I don't think I have, it does have this tendency to do it so you don't notice. But it doesn't sound as though there's any substantial improvement in there.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oooh shiny. I like the look of the new website permissions behaviour. That should make things a lot easier to manage.
|
|
|
|
|
i said desktop mode offers things metro doesn't offer right now. maybe it's issues with flash, maybe plugins in general or something else they are doing, but with desktop they have more resources than they have on (what it's called now? Modern?)
i'm not sure of what resources they're using, i'm no specialist, and after the update, i think i'm sticking with IE10. it's fast and i've a emotional attachment to IE, never liked when in 7 i was forced into chrome and firefox due to IE speed and flash bugs.
and i had enough of chrome own bugs, i wan't my old friends back, the IE bugs 
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
|
|
|
|
|
And I was just about to complain that when I ran chrome yesterday after a fresh download/install on win2012 from the desktop with a 27 inch monitor that it went to Metro mode and took over the whole screen.
Edit: Hmm. Maybe that was some momentary glitch as its working now..
John
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
