Google Chrome — Fast, but Unstable

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

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 [...]



Big Google Builds

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Just some interesting tidbits that Mike Aizatsky mentioned about Google build process — the executables can be 300 MB big (’cause everything is linked statically) and they have a home-grown build system for making them. Cool stuff!



Google Reader bug

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Recently I constantly run into the same problem — Google Reader shows that some category contains unread entries whereas when you click on them it show nothing. Check out the screenshot where I apparently have 8 unread items, but although I have “All items” selected nothing shows.