Jevgeni Kabanov

Google Chrome — Fast, but Unstable

September 3rd, 2008 | by Jevgeni Kabanov |

I gave Google Chrome a quick spin. At least two problems came out:

  • Digest-based authentication isn’t handle correctly, the sent request does not include the query causing 400 Bad Request
  • Google Analytics will randomly crash the Flash plugin freezing the whole browser (with all the talk of isolated processes…)

On the immediate positive side it fixed my main pet peeve with Mozilla Prism — the inability to change font size, so I replaced the Prism shortcuts with Chrome applications. It is also really, really fast.

All in all it’s fast and cool, but needs lots more polish before massive adoption.

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  • Mike
    Very unstable and at times inconsistent. Will offer to save some user names and passwords and not others!!! Can't get the font sizes right even on Gmail!!! Would really like a menu bar please. I don't really feel that I'm in control of this browser as I do with Firefox and Opera.
  • hammy
    awww snap wayyyyyyyy too often i like the spped but i am abandoning it due to it crashing too much way too much
  • James
    Way too unstable.

    6 months later and still every second page brings up "Aw, snap", or "Connection failed unexpectedly".

    FAIL.

    Uninstalled.
  • I fully agree, its lightning fast, but its barely stable enough to use, I am not used to a browser crashing at least 2-3 times an hour.

    I also don't like that you have to type in the webpage address manually (or copy and paste) to get the site into shortcuts.

    Lastly no download progress might be clean and neat, but surely you should be able to see how long a download is going to take.
  • I totally agree with you, I really like the fast speed but it's really unstable!
  • Stu
    very unstable, shockwave app crashing intermittently..
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