Google Chrome Bugs and Features
Everyone and his dog seems to be banging on about Google Chrome today, just a couple of days after launch, so this post will undoubtedly be lost in the sea of rants and raves on the subject. In the few hours I’ve been using it, I’ve found a few bugs:
- The ‘Most Visited Pages’ front page only adds non-local-language pages if you visit the root domain name first. If you visit, for example, http://blah.jp/english/ then it won’t be added.
- Disk access is horrendously excessive, bring smaller machines to a halt.
- SELECT/OPTION elements with “background-color:transparent;”, or with a background image, appear black.
Sites not working:
- BlueQuartz Control Panel
- Hotmail.com *
- KLM.com *
(* – Due to poor UserAgent Detection by the site.)
If you’ve got any, feel free to use the comments below.
Update: 10th November
Well it took a while, but as of version 0.3.154.9, I am comfy enough with Google Chrome for it to be the default browser on all of my machines.
I done thrashed my swap file and I was doing nothing but sat at google home page.
It’s still too unreliable – its crashed a couple of times with lots of tabas open. If I’m using Google Docs it tends to blank out the pages after a while.
But the worst thing is if I use Google Maps with it, it actually destroys my wireless connection and I have to reboot the machine to get it back!
I’ll be sticking with Firefox for now.
Ran into this issue noted above:
SELECT/OPTION elements with “background-color:transparent;”, or with a background image, appear black.
Also I am unable to repro it consistently but sometimes it drops out the CSS
Other than this I have had a relatively good experience with chrome and look forward to seeing it’s progress.