Google chrome

Google Chrome, the newest browser by google has been launched (as most of you guys know). It’s looking good, no doubt but It’s still not fully functional with all those bugs and issues that even the developers know.

First of all, some of the Known Issues that users have already submitted

- Spreadsheets – When you click in one cell, it sometimes focuses on another cell above it.
- Docs – Comments don’t work as expected
- Calendar – The day is scrolled up to midnight after you edit an event
- Calendar – If you create an all day event between Friday and Sunday, the event will be one day longer than intended.
- Docs – ‘Also editing now’ message redraws multiple times when you scroll
- The English (US) dictionary is installed by default for all languages
- ‘Find in page’ sometimes fails to find entries on very long pages and in editable text areas
- Sometimes your laptop won’t go to sleep when Google Chrome is running
- Error responses from some proxies are truncated
- Google Chrome doesn’t honor the ‘bypass proxies for these addresses’ list in the Windows’ Internet Options control panel
- Performing searches take a long time, and I see “Resolving proxy…” in the lower-left of the window
- When you open an RSS feed or xml file, it only shows the raw XML data

I downloaded Google chrome, opened couple of sites and then went to check google adsense, to my surprise I confronted this and upon some investigation I found out that Google Chrome does not support SSL client authentication.


Google adsense

So google adsense is a potentially harmful version of google? and according to Chrome, we should proceed with it! wow! Anyway, some stuff that should be given a small thought.

Rumor is, Google Removed all the referrals elements from Adsense last month and their main referral was Mozilla FireFox! and now suddenly, we are looking at Google Chrome? This comes to a question, is this going to affect Google’s relationship with firefox? Are they still going to fund Mozilla?

Answer is, no! This won’t affect google’s relationship with firefox that much. Why? because Last week, Google renewed a royalty deal with Mozilla, which will run through November 2011, providing the open-source organization with a new three-year lifeline. According to a amazing article by TGDaily

“Funding Mozilla remains the cheapest strategy for Google to control the Internet Explorer’s influence and market share, however, a Google web browser adds a variable to that equation that may change the outcome of the Mozilla relationship when the agreement expires in three years, especially if Chrome can capture market share quickly.

Google isn’t Mozilla’s only income source, but there is no denying that Mozilla would not be what it is today and Firefox would not look like as it does today. According to Mozilla’s most recently published tax statements (fiscal year 2006 ended December 31, 2006) reveals that Mozilla had sales of $67 million at the time, $57 million of which came from Google, because of Firefox’ use of Google as default home page and revenues from ad placements.

For now, it is business as usual and we are sure that Mozilla and market watchers will have a close eye on how Google will be leveraging its countless business relationships to push its Chrome browser. Besides the fact that it has a search market share of more than 60% in the U.S., its software is included by default on many new PCs, it has partnerships with industry giants such as MySpace and Ebay, it owns YouTube, it works on integration its software in gas station pumps there is a mobile search deal with Verizon in the works and the company is apparently interested in acquiring Digg.”

Google Chrome Press Release Video:



Update: Looks like Google Chrome won the Speed Test. (via-Cnet)


Talking about relevancy, this comic might interest you (via – Zot!)

Google Chrome Bugs (Updated – By you guys, refer to comments):

- Google Chrome Favorites Issue: Does not import most of favorites and does not import them if used the “import bookmarks” function. (by moreofless)

- Google Chrome Scroll Bug: Can’t scroll up but can scroll down (by Max Gsodam, James Delaney)

- BlueQuartz server appliance control panel doesn’t load at all with Google Chrome. Fails with “uncaught exception TypeError: Cannot call method ’scheduler_addJob’ of undefined” (By Dude)

- Typing about:% in the task bar crashes Google Chrome (By Matt)

- Unable to login iGoogle when using Google Chrome (by Vik)

- Google Chrome bugs in Vista (by jeremiah)

Update: Google tweaks Chrome licence text

Google has rescinded an article of the user agreement for its new browser, Chrome , released on Tuesday. The initial agreement claimed rights over “any Content which you submit, post or display on or through” the browser. Google reworded the agreement on Wednesday, leaving those rights in the hands of Chrome’s users. A spokesperson for Google said its user agreements were re-used and the initial claim was an oversight. (Read more @ BBC)

- How to check for Google Chrome Updates:

1. Click the Tools menu
2. Select About Google Chrome.
3. At the bottom of the window, it will check for updates.

That’s it for now but I’ll surely update this post as I face more bugs and errors. Though, I would love to hear what you have to say about Google Chrome.