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Headers printing in Google Chrome
Posted in Technicalon Sep 11, 2008
I have a project which requires me to print from a web browser. Firefox wasn’t printing things very correctly, which prompted me to consider printing through Google Chrome.
Google Chrome did a reasonable job at rending the pages, but it has one problem. It wants to print headers on the top and bottom of all the pages including: the url, the page title, the date, and the page number. For my print job, I don’t want to reveal all that information, and I would prefer to print my pages without it.
In Firefox, I am given a Page Setup option from the File menu where I can customize headers, footers, and margins for printing. I cannot find any such option in Google Chrome.
Acid 3 revisted
Posted in Technicalon Sep 8, 2008
In March I ran the Acid 3 web browser stress test against all the most modern browsers at the time to see how they performed. Since then, there are new versions of browsers which justify a re-run of the tests. Here are the results:
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 – 71/100
- Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 – 79.100
- Opera 9.52 – 83/100
- Windows Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 – Too bad to tell. Perhaps 5/100?
- Apple’s Safari 3.1.2 (525.21) – 75/100
- Flock 1.2.5 – 53/100
All the web browsers were run on the same Windows XP system.
Then, out of curiosity, I decided to check the memory usage of each browser and found the following:
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 – 55M (After all add-ons were turned off)
- Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 – 41M
- Opera 9.52 – 27M (But then crashed on subsequent loads)
- Windows Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 – 41M (But still couldn’t render the test at all)
- Apple’s Safari 3.1.2 (525.21) – 41M
- Flock 1.2.5 – 54M
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