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Google Chrome Beta with Bugs - First Impressions

By roystahl | September 2, 2008

Google released Chrome on September 2nd 2008. A new browser to add to the browser war (honestly a two horse race if ever there was one)

Can Google add a third competent browser to this list? Answer: Not if it thinks this beta is close to being ready for Prime time.

First impressions:

Fast download (not a mega file like IE8 is suppose to be. (No I am not interested in IE8 until it is released. Too many MS betas crash machines.))
Fast rendering first pages.
Handle some applications that are VERY Javascript heavy that can bring IE or Firefox to a crawl. It did well with a real live application that I wrote that lives inside a firewall.

Second Impressions:

Had the same bug as Safari for passing information to a Flash application for my vegetable garden software
During the install process it seemed to have created a bug where I couldn’t resize ANY application window until I rebooted. (That was strange, but hard to confirm 100% that is was Chrome that did it.)
A page that correctly dynamically adds a table ROW in IE and Firefox didn’t work right. It added a new COLUMN and a new ROW to the middle of the table. Again, this has been working with IE6, IE7 and multiple versions of Firefox. (never tested with Safari - remember that I consider the world to be a two horse race for browsers)
Finally a page that has worked on ALL browsers it was ever tested with displayed RAW HTML instead of the page layout. At first I thought I accidently clicked on view source, but I double checked and Google’s Chrome displayed HTML as HTML code. This has been tested with IE, Firefox, Safari and others as it is an appliation that lives outside a firewall on the web.
Favicons don’t seem to work. Kind of sad it has a problem with them. Not a show stopper, but embarrasing for modern browsers

I have had Chrome only since 11:50 am September 2, 2008 and even with an hour meeting and an hour lunch I found all these problems before 3pm.

Good luck Google, you have your work cut out for you!!!

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