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Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers
If you use Chrome along with Google's Sync, you may have noticed something strange Monday: normally stable Chrome crashing. An article at Wired (excerpt below) explains why: "Late Monday, Google engineer Tim Steele confirmed what developers had been suspecting. The crashes were affecting Chrome users who were using another Google web service known as Sync, and that Sync and other Google services — presumably Gmail too — were clobbered Monday when Google misconfigured its load-balancing servers. ... Steele wrote in a developer discussion forum, a problem with Google's Sync servers kicked off an error on the browser, which made Chrome abruptly shut down on the desktop. 'It's due to a backend service that sync servers depend on becoming overwhelmed, and sync servers responding to that by telling all clients to throttle all data types,' Steele said. That 'throttling' messed up things in the browser, causing it to crash."
Sync was sunk
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Fine as *one* backup location, fine for non-critical data and apps, fine for anything that won't be particularly missed if it goes offline for a while.
Shit for anything important.
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Firefox bookmarks sync is much better than Chrome bookmarks sync. Firefox stored your bookmarks locally and updated them periodically from the cloud. Chrome appears to have to download everything when I start the browser. I get a blank bookmarks bar for a few seconds when the internet is slow and I open Chrome. This is one place where Firefox got the design right and Chrome has it wrong.
Software crashes due to complex online dependency, film at 11.
It seems there are some significant problems with Chrome on Windows that go beyond Windows' standard brain damage. The problems I've run into have been numerous enough that I've had to drop Chrome on my Windows machine and go to Firefox. Everyone is familiar with the usual disk pounding that Windows considers more important than servicing user events such as mouse clicks, etc. However, in the case of Chrome it seems very much worse. Firefox -- no problem. (Yes, all the usual suspects such as extensions, plugins, malware/virus scans etc. have been dealt with.)
Seastead this.
I can tell you this for certain first hand. I was wondering if there was something wrong with my phone itself, had it not been a busy day there's a serious chance I would have devoted some time finding a better ROM even though Mean ROM has been been pretty good so far, other than annoyances with the Android browser - which is why I put mobile Chrome on despite them being so similar.
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It seems there are some significant problems with Firefox on Windows that go beyond Windows' standard brain damage. The problems I've run into have been numerous enough that I've had to drop Firefox on my Windows machine and go to Opera. Everyone is familiar with the usual disk pounding that Windows considers more important than servicing user events such as mouse clicks, etc. However, in the case of Firefox it seems very much worse. Opera -- no problem. (Yes, all the usual suspects such as extensions, plugins, malware/virus scans etc. have been dealt with.)
Why not request bandwidth and only proceed when it is granted.
This is still happening today.
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Here I thought it was crashing because I installed a plugin to make it more like Firefox.
I've noticed lately my Windows 7 x64 machine has been having issues with a fraction of my normal "Tab load" on Chrome, crashing or freezing pages, unable to show YouTube pages properly, etc... I believe this might be related to the Sync problem, since I use that.
These problems started a few weeks ago.
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Firefox is no longer the bloated piece of crap it once was while Chrome was new. It uses the least amount of ram of any browser. It no longer requires 4 gigs of ram and a quad core like version 4. Plugins no longer break with the latest release either between versions. Chrome has gotten buggy and much slower in comparison. In 2011 Chrome would the only browser besides old IE that could run on 5 year old hardware. Now firefox runs as fast as 2.0 on these systems.
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for me in the exact way described, so maybe the problem's not fixed yet?
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It seems there are some significant problems with Opera on Windows that go beyond Windows' standard brain damage. The problems I've run into have been numerous enough that I've had to drop Opera on my Windows machine and go to Lynx. Everyone is familiar with the usual disk pounding that Windows considers more important than servicing user events such as mouse clicks, etc. However, in the case of Opera it seems very much worse. Lynx -- no problem. (Yes, all the usual suspects such as extensions, plugins, malware/virus scans etc. have been dealt with.)
One more good reason NOT to use the bookmarks sync function the browser supplies, and instead use a third party alternative.
Not in my experience. It crashes daily on me, often more than once a day. And the pseudo-Macintosh sad face "Aw snap..." message wasn't cute the first time. Now it's beyond irritating. Don't hearken back to a 20 year old theme in a vain attempt to try to be cute when you've imploded; at the very least give me some kind of error message. (I suppose that's verboten in the Google "less is more" universe, which is why you also strip down the browser interface so much that not only are semi-relevant buttons and menu items removed from view but controls I want to actually use on a regular basis have also disappeared! Dammit, Google...)
Tabs are hopeless; if I right-click on an interesting link and open in a new tab, I'll see the original page when I click to that tab. In order to display the correct information, I must refresh the page.
On my company issued locked down laptop, I have a choice between IE 7 (!) and Chrome. Chrome has become so unstable and irritating that I only use it on pages where IE 7 simply won't work.
I'm more surprised that every time I BOOTED Windows there was a Google Chrome crash message box presented. I can assure you that I was never given an option about having Chrome start with Windows and I most definitely did NOT added Chrome to any of my start up stuff. So in addition to showing that actual humans work at Google (well, at least a few) this also exposed the fact that installing Chrome installs something (that may claim to BE Chrome) that normally runs silently every time Windows is started. Maybe some of you knew about it, but it was news to everyone I've asked.
Also, I've been bit by Firefox's sync feature, too, when one of the machines had a problem and trashed all of my settings, bookmarks and add-ons the sync feature decided to propagate THAT to my other machines instead of using sync to fix the broken one. One would think that, if it was smart enough to detect that those things were corrupted, it should have used sync to get good copies, NOT to share the corruption. Heh... Maybe there's an ex or future politician writing code for Firefox, eh?
//try /* comment */ is for chumps.
//{
tabs.sync();
//}
//catch
//{
//printf("Oops, cloud sync failed. Terribly sorry, Captain. We'll fail gracefully and just make do without.");
//}
// James, I fucking told you not to use try-catch statements, they're too slow. The code works and a cloud failure is basically impossible (five nines, baby) so just chill, will you?
// P.S.
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It's due to a backend service that sync servers depend on becoming overwhelmed
So they are saying that the fix is to simply overwhelm the service? You know, since the sync servers depend on it being overwhelmed... ;)
Chrome's been crashing consistently for all my machines for the last month or so:
desktop (Win7-32 bit)
laptop (Win7-32 bit)
macbook pro (Mountain Lion)
macbook (Snow Leopard)
I can go days without Firefox or even Safari crashing on me. But I usually have a problem with Chrome dying on me by the end of the day. Maybe it's a combination of Flash/Sling Player that's giving Chrome such problems on my machines.
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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
..would want to use Chrome, the whole thing feels like a trojan horse, it installs Google updaters EVERYWHERE (even in Firefox's plugin department) and is co-dependent on the google web (tm) to an extend where how they balance their load-balancing servers will be enough to crash it?! Firefox and duckduckgo FTW (on related note; I just noticed recently that the latter's stats have gone through the roof, visitor-number-wise, in last few months).
So for one day Internet Explorer was actually superior to Chrome?
Place nail here >+
That bug clobbered me a couple of months ago so I think not so knew, just a new twist. Sync would break across browsers even despite applying the recommended fixes. seemed to be an authentication issue
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Normally stable? What Chrome are they talking about because 25 is not stable?! They must not be talking about laying out pages wrong because you include that and it's right up there with Safari, lol. And forget super-complicated, code-heavy interactive pages. It will destroy them.
I have found Chrome to be relatively stable, but what bugs me is when searching for text in a large file (something I often do at work) it gets bogged down tracking down ALL instances, which is nice to see on the bar when it is done, but I wish it would do that in a separate thread.
Its just weird... can't attach emails in chrome. Works fine in firefox on the same computer. All latest versions, but the bug has been logged for ages (not by me). Why they don't / can't fix something so basic is baffling.
This is why I use IE 6!! Rock solid.
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On Monday, Google started to disable the old Youtube login, and started to require people to login to GMail in order to access and update and comment on their Youtube videos. It's likely that many people established or started using a GMail account, and so this problem popped up.
Many other people started switching to Vimeo and other video hosting services.
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With VALID critique based on valid grounds in programming vs. "hit & run" downmods of it here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3308821&cid=42257481
* Pitiful to do a "hit & run" downmod that has no valid basis behind it... weak move, trolls!
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P.S.=> After all - when "the best you've got" = downmods for no valid technical reasons in computer programming? You FAILED, trolls... period!
... apk
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