While Chrome is a great browser, I feel it still falls short of Firefox and is inferior in almost every way. First, what it does right.
Faster than Firefox. Yes faster, but it wasn’t a deal breaker. I will gladly go back to Firefox.
Separates processes for each tab. So if 1 Tab craps out, your entire browser does not. This is one that is a clear winner for Chrome.
No restart require for extensions. Again not a deal breaker.
Now for my gripes:
No clearing of cache on exit. This is a crucial shortcoming that I don’t understand why google hasn’t implemented this to begin with. Maybe it has something to do with their data-mining methods through chrome. Or maybe it was just a clear oversight.
Still does not have the extensions to back it up. Things I missed were youtube downloader, fireftp, and logmein plugin. It reminds me of iOS vs Android. While I like Android as a platform, I still feel the App support behind iOS makes a jailbroken iOS device better than android. This is a whole new blog entry that I will probably cover someday.
Shares some settings with IE such as proxy. I guess this really isn’t a problem, but I would like the ability to have separate proxy for each browser.
Still does not render pages properly for less standardized sites. My work uses a bunch of proprietary web apps that do not render/work properly in Chrome. I found myself using IETab for ever tab in Chrome. Which completely defeats the purpose.
Direct opening of downloads for certain file types were poorly implemented. Sometimes I want to download an excel file and just view it. I don’t want it to dl it somewhere and then I’ll have to click it on the download bar.
So why use this Chronus instead of PkgBackup? Well the answer is, you shouldn’t. Chronus should not replace PkgBackup but it should supplement it. PkgBackup is a great utility that will reinstall all Cydia apps that were installed at the point a backup was made. This is useful as iTune can not restore cydia apps. However Chronus does something completely different. Chronus will save application data such as saved games, bookmarks, settings, high scores, and etc. So basically, you will want to use PkgBackup to get all your Cydia Apps back after a restore, and you would use Chronus to get all your settings and save files back.
Prerequisites
1. A jailbroken iPhone running 2.x-4.x (Yes, chronus is confirmed to be working with iOS4)
2. Chronus 2.2
3. WinSCP
Backup Instructions
1. Install Chronus 2.2 from Cydia.
2. Go into each app you want backed up and set the “Backup All Mode” to ON.
3. Press “Backup All”
4. You can email your back up to yourself one package at a time or you can just SCP into the phone via WINSCP and copied the TimeCapsule Folder at var/mobile/library/preferences to my desktop
5. Done.
Restore Instructions
1. WinSCP to SCP into your iPhone.
2. Navigate to the /var/mobile/library/preferences/
3. Copy the TimeCapsule folder you had backed up before to the directory in step 2.
4. Open Chronus
5. Restore each app one at a time. (Unfortunately I do not know a way to do a restore all.)
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