Stupid Chrome bug: Why I'm switching back to Firefox

[Web moderator]

It doesn't take much to make me hate a browser. After using Chrome for an entire week, I found one seemingly innocuous bug that is so annoying and frustrating that I can't even use the product anymore...

http://blogs.computerworld.com/stupid_chrome_bug

[Global Moderator]

I remember when Google Desktop Search was first released and it made my PC unusable - I had to reinstall Windows XP

Hmmmm.....All of a sudden I don't like Google Software anymore.... (not that I have Google Desktop)

[Web moderator]

Hmmmm.....All of a sudden I don't like Google Software anymore.... (not that I have Google Desktop)

Yea, I know. Re-install Windows? Not worth risking.

All of a sudden I don't like Google Software anymore

That started, when Chrome provided some of us with Carbon's father bank account info....LOL

[Global Moderator]

All of a sudden I don't like Google Software anymore

That started, when Chrome provided some of us with Carbon's father bank account info....LOL

Got that too, eh? 

To steal a phrase from Obama, the Chrome bells and whistles are the crudely hastily and badly applied lipstick, and the (very ugly) pig is the outdated version of Safari that Google's browser is based on.

[Web moderator]

LOL, with a bit of editing.

if only google chrome and apple's safari switched faces (at least on windows), then maybe it would work 

I am a fan of Google, but felt no urge, and still do not feel any urge, to try their browser just because it's there...

[Malware Removal Specialist]

Does anybody understand what the word Beta means? The good thing about beta releases is the feedback, both good and bad, is listened to and in many instances acted upon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta

Maybe all of the feedback should go to the Google team to help improve it for the final release. Google Chrome Help Center

All right -- I hadn't been following that closely -- with all the hype, I thought it was a regular release that they'd already beta tested.

Does Google have any non Beta products

What do you want from Chrome? It works well. Your bank accounts are very safe with me

[Web moderator]

Your bank accounts are very safe with me

Maybe so, but they'd be safer still with me...

[Malware Removal Specialist]

The more I read the more all of this becomes more clear. Google isn't just trying to give us a new browser, they are actually trying to create a new "Web OS." They are actually going after MS. It also explains all of the cacheing the browser does. Although I don't like the cacheing, your information is only going to be at risk "if" someone hacks into the Google servers, just like it would be if they hacked into your bank, paypal or even your own computer. Hopefully and very likely everything is encrypted so there would still be a huge degree of difficulty in anyone actually stealing your information.

"Google knows that the way to beat Microsoft is to become the operating system for the Internet. You do that by [rendering] the actual OS obsolete."

Google's Chrome aims to kill Windows, make Web the OS of choice

I've also read some of the security blogs and they don't have any concern about the cacheing.

Google is also taking big steps to make sure everyones information stays safe.

Google hires browser hacking guru

Zalewski, who has been credited in the past with finding several major vulnerabilities (buffer overflow in SendMail, weaknesses in TCP/IP ISNs, code execution hole in IE’s JPG rendering) has spent most of 2007 releasing details of severe holes in Internet Explorer and Firefox — constantly cracking the browsers’ security models.