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Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers

Posted by timothy on from the browser-is-the-network-is-the-computer dept.

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."

4 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. Sync was sunk by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sync was sunk
    By a bristly punk.
    Having less facial drag,
    He'd've more clearly thunk.
    Burma Shave

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  2. Line by line debugging reveals... by Sasayaki · · Score: 5, Funny

    //try
    //{
    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. /* comment */ is for chumps.

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  3. Re:Firefox + Windows = Opera by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    $ tr "Firefox Opera" "Opera Midori" < parentcomment

    That gives:

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    I'm not sure what this is intended to tell me, though.

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  4. Re:Top that? Son, I'm gonna obliterate it. by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am... Humbled...

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