Chrome Abruptly Stopped Working

I was quite happy with Chrome. But then, one day it decided to stop loading, at all! I click the icon, it flashes the browser for a millisecond and closes... Very bizarre. No warning. No nothing. No viruses on my computer. Other browsers work fine...

Looking at bug fixes... No solution.

Won't Load

Chrome won't load for me. I'm running XP Pro and nothing works. I can shut down everything, reboot and on and on...no go. It will load the updater, but that is it. If I then look at programs to remove, updater is there, but no chrome. I can check the file directories and nothing there for Chrome. Looking around I see a lot of others having similar problems with various Win OS's.

phones home, disasterous EULA....

wow. One of Chrome's basic "features" is to optimize your searching and browsing, based on which sites you choose from a search result, what locations you directly type into the address bar, and so on.

In normal operations, it "phones home" with all your activities. It's like a sexy KGB agent-- pretty to look at, but after a couple of dates, the secret police are gonna know EVERYTHING about you.

As with GMail, I expect that Chrome will "live up to it's promise" by not promising anything (GMail is still officially in "beta" status, use at your own risk. Their "personal health record" is even worse, encouraging you to give up HIPPA protections right and left. Because Google is not a Health care PROVIDER, they don't have to obey the privacy requirements built into the law.)

Google Chrome claims certain "rights" to the content of anything you look at. It's a privacy disaster, and seems to hand over rights to your own website content to Google just by looking at it. Steven, you're merely looking only at how pretty it is-- not what it's doing! It's basically a keylogger with a pretty web browser on top, and I don't want keyloggers on my computers (or my customers' computers).

It's still Firefox (with noscript !!) for me.

Google's privacy makes chrome a no-go

As with all Google products, their privacy rules allow them to harvest and then use and sell your data. Skip Chrome, stick with Firefox. I know I will.

http://www.jeremyduffy.com/beware-google-browsers-license-agreement/

I am google fan and was

I am google fan and was looking forward to try chrome.

My first experience with Chrome was not good for two reasons.

1. I have some HTML file with javascript and Chrome just couldn't load that page.

The page contains a 100 row with 20 columns, the javascript show/hides ~10 columns of the tables. while IE & FF can easily do that whereas chrome was just hung. Also it asked me to kill that page. BTW i use IE7 & FF3

2. Chrome doesn't support "expression specification in CSS"
I have CSS specification :
thead tr{
font-size:small;
border:1 solid black;
background:khaki;color: #009900;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
position:relative;
top: expression(offsetParent.scrollTop);
}

Chrome can not handle "expression"
Though FF3 also doesn't support this but IE does.

Got the Chrome Blues?

Got the Chrome blues?

Here's a quick fix to darken the appearance of the bright blue browser recently released. Although the browser,and consequently, the UI design decisions are conceptually great, the colors of the UI are just a little too bright for me. So here you will find a 'fix' - or at least my choice for colors (surprised the Android team didn't suggest this)

To apply this theme, simply download the default.dll and place it in the following directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\0.2.149.27\Themes

Make sure you back up the default.dll that is in there!

Preview of the 'muted' theme..

First look at Chrome

I'm also quite impressed so far, but I won't be using it until it collects add-ons like my favorite Firefox ones – especially the brilliant No Squint, which any computer with reasonably fine resolution should have if users value their eyesight. Much better than continually hitting Ctrl and the + sign.

Equivalents to Adblock, FlashBlock and FireFTP are pretty vital to me also. On this page, right now, moving Flash adverts are distracting me. They have to DIE before I come back here via Chrome!

And Chrome simply has to allow the Roboform toolbar.

I haven't measured timings, but I can't say that Chrome _feels_ faster than Firefox - in fact the first time I pointed Chrome to the Computerworld home page, it took a ridiculously long time to load. But that's a tough ask - down here in New Zealand at least, Computerworld has one of the slowest sites on the Web.

I can't see Chrome turning me on to cloud computing in a hurry. Increasingly I find myself doing synchronised backups through the web and I'm using Gmail more and more, but when it comes to professional work, I just won't rely on an Internet connection, thanks. Not yet anyway.

Speaking of Gmail, I've put that on my Quick Launch group, via Chrome's 'Create Application Shortcuts' feature. It's a really neat idea and I can see how the feature could be useful should I ever decide to give up MS Office and move onto Cloud Nine.

What is interesting is the

What is interesting is the speed of this new browser. I just took it for a test spin and it's a lot faster compared to other browsers. The statistics tell what you need to know http://google-chrome.com/?p=104