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Four years ago, before I started using Unix OSes (Linux, OS X), I was an avid user of Google Notebook in Windows XP. All sorts of stuff went into my Notebook and it quickly became indispensable for me.
Then I moved to Ubuntu and, tragedy, no Google Notebook. So, I started to use Delicious (or Del.icio.us as it was called then). OK, it’s not quite the same in that you can only save or bookmark full web pages, but it was a reasonable substitute in a way. But I still missed the opportunity to save snippets to an online server.
Now, I use a number of Linux OSes as well as OS X 10.6 on a number of computers. So, it would be very useful to have a version of Google Notebook that I could use in all my OSes and have it available in all computers that I use, or will ever use.
Well, now I do thanks to the GNote extension for Chromium. In the little testing that I’ve done so far it works perfectly in both Snow Leopard and Ubuntu Karmic.
As Chrome is just a little bit of a memory hog, a purge button could be useful if you’re RAM-challenged. And that’s just what this link describes. Now, it’s only just been added to the nightly builds so it’ll only work if you have a fairly recent version of Chromium.
Not only that but it only seems to work in Windows which I don’t use (at least not with any enthusiasm). Certainly, I added the –purge-memory-button to the launch command for Chromium 4.0.263.0 (Ubuntu build 33682) but no button appeared in the Task Manager.
In OS X 10.6, I tried to launch Chromium with
/Applications $ open -a chromium.app –purge-memory-button
but got an error “unrecognized option `–purge-memory-button’”
So, just have to wait until it shows up in Chromium for non-Windows OSes.
