Deep Jive Interests

So, many moons ago I wrote about how I was having a problem with Chrome – namely that it would erratically *not* resolve a variety of hosts in surfing the web. This resulted in an incredibly frustrating experience which I presumed had improved when I fiddled with the DNS “pre-fetching” option. In fact, as I discovered several weeks ago, this was not a permanent fix.

So great was my frustration I went a-hunting … it turns out that I am not the only one with this problem. It has been documented in Google Groups here and here, amongst other places. Some people have reported it may be a bug due to dual network cards, in another report. Nevertheless, as I thought about it, I wondered if the whole DNS-issue was the real problem I was having, and lo … so it was.

Because I have seemed to have fixed Chrome’s problem (and indeed, I was running into the same problem with Firefox and IE but not Opera oddly enough; odd factoid, I turned to Opera, a browser I haven’t used in about 6 years, and I was pleasantly surprised) [cue fireworks] by using the free DNS-resolving utility rather than my own ISP’s: OpenDNS.

Yes, I am aware that its not without its smidgeon of controversy (hijacks queries), but I regard this as a pretty small issue relative to the way that my internet experience had been crippled.

Since I’ve switched to using OpenDNS, my browsing experience has gone to being rock solid.  Check it out if you’ve been having problems with Chrome.