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Weird Chrome bug permlink

Category: Technology
Posted on: September 4, 2008 4:13 PM, by Razib

Chrome is Google's browser, and Blogger is Google's weblogging service, but Firefox is much better in the Blogger editing box.

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AFAIK Google purchased Blogger, so maybe its codebase contains non-Google code that interferes with Google's codebase?

Posted by: pconroy | September 4, 2008 4:21 PM

BTW, here something fun a la Ted Stevens.

Enter this URL in Chrome:
about:internets

Posted by: pconroy | September 4, 2008 4:23 PM

yeah, they really haven't done much with blogger since getting it, despite their upgrade and integration with google appds. i'll check that out.

Posted by: razib | September 4, 2008 4:46 PM

Blogger is a real disappointment to me (so is Picasa). Google should have integrated/fixed them up after acquisition. Maybe that was their intention, but found the code base was crap and would have to be completely replaced.

Anyway, encouraging Google to fix/replace those two is a good thing... maybe they are already working on it? Anyone know?

Posted by: travc | September 5, 2008 2:12 AM

For me, the real show-stopper in Chrome was that it doesn't appear to support RSS. Which is certainly a touch ironic coming from the company that owns Blogger, and should know a thing or two about RSS feeds.

Posted by: Armchair Dissident | September 5, 2008 7:05 AM

Note that Chrome is very beta. Much more beta than most of Google's products (which they inexplicably leave as beta for years). They don't even have the Mac or Linux versions out. Expect a lot of changes.

However it does appear they are going pretty minimalistic. Even more minimal than Safari. So if you like all those Firefox plugins I don't think Chrome is for you.

They aren't even the first to basically sandbox each tab's Javascript. Expect other browsers to do that as well thereby diminishing some of the appeal of Chrome.

Posted by: Clark Goble | September 5, 2008 6:18 PM

Note that Chrome is a WebKit-based browser. That is, it is based upon open-source code. The browser itself is open-source too. I imagine a community of developers will spring up in quick fashion - plugins and extensions will likely be not too far off in the future.

Posted by: Zwirko | September 6, 2008 8:08 AM

@Armchair Dissident: I suspect that they would prefer that you use their web-based feedreader service, and provide them with delicious statistical data and advertising eyeballs, rather than a dedicated offline software setup. I'm guessing that a mail client would be very much the same story. Some omissions are betaness, some are by design.

Posted by: phisrow | September 6, 2008 2:14 PM