Comments on: Google’s Chrome: One Retraction, Two Things It Does Wrong

By: Deep Jive Interests » Chrome’s “Resolving Host” Problem Solved

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:11:52 +0000

[...] I was kind of amazed myself, in spite of all the plugins I’ve been missing. At any rate, one thing I’ve begun noticing has been getting worse: its seeming inability to “resolve the [...]

By: Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:50:22 +0000

The two things that have annoyed me the most – one bug and one feature:

#1 bug – I find on Vista if you run chrome @ max and have your windows taskbar auto-hiding you can’t get to it. (i.e. going to the bottom of the screen doesn’t pop-up the taskbar). Not the end of the world but the only way to get your taskbar to pop-up is to un-maximize EVERY window (not just chrome) but it only happens when chrome is maxed.

#2 feature – no spellchecker. this feature alone is why I use FF above any others. inline spellchecking in any text window is so darn handy. I’m also used to it now so I find with Chrome I’m missing typos because I expect the redline to pop-up

By: tdhedengren

tdhedengren — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:25:32 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, I love Chrome so far, and would probably use it a lot more had it been available for Mac OS X as well. However, Tony, there are options. Have you tried Safari for Windows? On Mac at least it boots up instantly and is a fast experience, and also more widely supported than Chrome. Granted, not much bling, but it gets the job done.

Another solution would of course be to buy a new computer. If Firefox takes 90 seconds to start, it is probably way overdue…

By: Da Bourz

Da Bourz — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:16:11 +0000

Was it a gift for your wife or more realistically some porn website ?

;-)

By: jhay

jhay — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:52:42 +0000

I agree, have had no problems with URIs in the past seven days of using Google Chrome.

This are early bugs and would be fixed in the upcoming releases of Chrome, thus making it better.

What I’m really waiting for are the plugins and extensions the community will come up with.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:06:34 +0000

Huh, I haven’t heard of issue #2 at all from other people. Are there any sites that reliably have problems resolving? Are you using anything unusual like OpenDNS or other things? Mind if I ask which ISP you’re using?