“Question: I can't load up any websites with chrome(it was working fine until a few days back). Other browsers work fine. It's a plain vanilla chrome installation with ad-blocking via a windows (xp) HOSTS file. Anyone have an idea of what's going on?”
wow, just switched my internet connection to broadband (we have both dial-up and broadband at office) and chrome (and iTunes Store) connect fine. When I try connecting via dial-up both chrome and iTunes don't connect at all while Firefox and IE have no trouble connecting on both dial-up and broadband. Wierd behavior... hope this helps others with similar issues. - vijay
vijay, I only asked about flash10 because it broke a lot of uploaders that were flash based. Flickr, Wordpress, WS Baker, and a bunch of others. Most have since resolved the issues. - cmiper
MJC, the link doesn't work when I connect via dialup. I guess I'm stuck with Firefox for now. - vijay
Have you tried turning it off and on again? - tehKenny
Kenny, I tried all of them: restarted PC, re-installed chrome, turned off XP firewall, rebooted network hardware, installed IE 8, restarted internet connection... but the damn thing won't work with a dial-up connection! I'm now convinced it has something to do with my dial-up ISP. I have to try using chrome with dial-up on another system to be sure, but I will slide that to some other day for now. - vijay
Try going to this URL (it's Google by IP) http://64.233.187.99/ and see if you can get there. If so, then either DNS is hosed or it's possible that Winsock has gone corrupt. I'd first try this (http://technet.microsoft.com/e...) and if not, then I'd try (nevermind this link didn't work) the command is *netsh winsock reset* - cmiper
They don't support FF yet...I put in a request. interesting features are : grab only a part of a web page, retain the links, add annotations with Anycanvas ( need to check it out ), an archived copy remains on Kwout so you can re-share - or link to if pics are not supported ( like Twitter ). - SnakeDoc
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It is even weired that I can copy-paste sometime,and sometime not.I don't know what to say. - Steve Chou
been using chrome almost exclsivly at work now since it's been out and never had that problem - John Duff
Yeah,I never had this kind of issue before today,it works fine now,but it did not work sometime today.I don't know whether it will show up tomorrow,maybe sometimes Chrome is not on its mood. - Steve Chou
Yes, I've got some weird copy & paste problems in Google Chrome, too. It may also happen in Firefox. There seems to be a difference in Ctrl-C and Edit-Copy. - Mike Reynolds
Some recent Chromium builds added many features that improve bookmark management and they'll probably be available in a future Google Chrome update. The most notable new feature is a bookmark manager that lets you find bookmarks, move them to a new folder or easily delete a large number of bookmarks. - LouCypher
“Did Chrome recently update and change functionality of the back/history button? I used to click-hold the back button, then release over previous page to select it. Now it requires an addition click.”
"Google Chrome uses a library called Skia, which is also the graphics engine behind Google's Android mobile OS. The two projects share code that implements WebKit's porting API in terms of Skia. Google Chrome also uses Skia to render parts of the user interface such as the toolbar and tab strip." - imabonehead
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"One question that people often ask is, why not use OpenGL or ActiveX for accelerated rendering? First, on Windows, we use a sandbox that prevents us from displaying windows from our renderer processes. The image data must be transferred to the main browser process before it can be drawn to the screen, which limits the possible approaches we can take. If the images needs to be read off the video card only to be copied back to the video card in another process, it is usually not worthwhile using accelerated rendering in the first place. - imabonehead
"Second, drawing graphics is actually a very small percentage of the time we spend rendering a page. Most of the time is spent in WebKit computing where things will be placed, what styles to apply to them, and using system routines to draw text. Accelerated 3D graphics would not give us enough overall improvement in speed to balance out the extra work and compatibility problems that we would encounter." - imabonehead
"We ended up choosing Skia over these options because it is cross-platform (meaning our work wouldn't have to be duplicated when porting to other systems), because there was already a high-quality WebKit port using it created for Android's browser, and because we had in-house expertise. The latter point is critical because we expected to (and did) need additional features added to the graphics library as well as some bugs fixed." - imabonehead
"Google's Chrome browser is now better at handling plugins. That the big thing I take away from the the new Chrome 0.3.154.3 update release.
The new update is tagged by Google as containing mostly bug fixes as well as a new download behaviour - which is also an important thing to note. Security researcher Aviv Raff had alleged that Chrome was at risk from a Carpet Bombing flaw that would let downloaded files execute on a users desktop - the 0.3.154.3 update changes download behaviour." - imabonehead
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Ah..so that's what that was. I guess Chrome updated without me noticing - ♫ Rahsheen™
When will it come to the Beta version?I've tried the dev version before,it crashes like crazy,I had to uninstall it and install the Beta version all over again.And the Beta version haven't got an update for quite a while. - Steve Chou
