Comments on: The Evernote Google Chrome Extension Gets Chromier

By: John L

John L — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:21:35 +0000

“Holy freakin’ slow extension, Batman!” is right. (WinXP). This was ok until recently, it seems. Now, when I run it, my CPU and i/o usage just SPIKE and the thing gets unresponsive. What happened to “quick clip and move on”? (It gets nasty when autocompleting tags, mostly, but tabbing to the notebook dropdown is also painfully slow. Do y’all REALLy need to download megabytes of data just to auto-complete from a list of about 30 tags? REALLY???)

Otherwise, yeah, great tool, and I’ll PROBABLY continue to use it, but suddenly seriously painful.

By: Natan Yellin

Natan Yellin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:29:29 +0000

I agree with Brian.

I seriously love EverNote – and I have tried every other notetaking & bookmarking tool out there – but the clipping speed in Chrome is unacceptable. If Chrome’s API wont let you save data to the desktop, then at least don’t keep the “Clipping page content” popup open while you sync to the internet. I can’t do anything else in Chrome while that dialog is open. Please, please, sync notes asynchronously, in the background.

By: Brian Lang

Brian Lang — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:38:29 +0000

Holy freakin’ slow extension batman (In Google Chrome on OS X). Used to be I could bookmark a site in about 2 seconds flat with Delicious’ tools. Now that I’ve switched to Evernote, it sometimes takes minutes to save a site – with or without clipping the page content. And forget about switching tabs, or doing ANYTHING else while it’s saving – it just stops saving the clip entirely. So I hit save, and walk away to get a cup of coffee. Come back 5 minutes later, and it’s still trying to save. Wowsers. Not all that useful.

By: SimonR

SimonR — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:53:30 +0000

Love it but why do I have to login every single time I use it, drives me batty! Lastpass doesn’t remember it either so I have to login to the site in a browser every time I want to clip something, very annoying, I just want to use the extension.

By: Suhendra

Suhendra — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:18:07 +0000

I am a Premium user. I use Chrome for mac for quick browsing because it is obviously faster than Firefox 3.6, But yes I agree very much Clipping to desktop is much snappier/faster/reliable. I think the chrome extension is also wonky in that when I switch windows, the loading bubble just goes away, and it takes forever to load.

I really don’t want to be clipping from firefox. But for now, it’ll do…

By: Dan Wade

Dan Wade — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:04:22 +0000

I’m new to Evernote, loving it so far. Just playing about with this extension in Chrome and when I highlight a section, then go to the extension, it doesn’t save what I’ve highlighted. Am I going wrong?!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:40:21 +0000

Same here.

By: Smokie

Smokie — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:30:40 +0000

I agree, the option to publish to the desktop version is nice for a lot of reasons. If you would add this as an option to the Chrome version (with the default off of course) I think that would really solidify this as the better addon.

By: btgoss

btgoss — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:04:14 +0000

I love the extension, and Evernote. I find myself using it more and more every day, I’m well on my way to addiction.

But.
I need to use Firefox at work, and I have grown to really love the clip to desktop application feature. Is this going to be added to the chrome extension? I really liked adding to the desktop and syncing when I was done working.

By: Brad Kynoch

Brad Kynoch — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:25:13 +0000

Same problem here. Can’t log into the extension pop-up because it won’t accept my username that I use in the Evernote login for every other browser and the web.