Google admits Chrome bug responsible for crashing MacBook Airs - Page 3

Nice try, read posts 1-1000, and don't quote others instead, your quote here was from another poster.

 

It can be very easy when you run an installer and it has a little innocuous checkbox asking if you would like to change default X.  That game is played far more on the PC side of the house.  After that the VAST majority of users just don't pay attention to the kinds of details that would clue them in that something significant changed.  They just chalk it up to that darned computer.

On Macs?

I don't think it's the most used browser on any OS platform.

Yes it is.

Some of the least informed and most biased posts I have seen here which is saying a lot.
Edited by MacBook Pro - 6/29/12 at 11:34pm

 

Most "biased" you mean?

Care to point out where I was wrong? I provided sources. And let me be clear, I never said the mechanism was perfect (I even say in one of those posts you quoted that Windows nonetheless still BSoDs from graphics driver issues all the time). I was merely for the sake of discussion pointing out that Windows does have a system specifically to mitigate what happened with Chrome on OSX.

Edited by sausages - 6/29/12 at 11:26pm

'Nuff Said

It is impossible to make a reasonable website today that caters for IE6.

LOL how true.

People are idiots. You can call them up and say "we're Microsoft and we've detected a virus. Give us your credit card details and we will sort it out".

This is the world that Microsoft has contributed to. Think about that. Ideology aside, let's face it, Microsoft is complicit in this kind of nonsense.

Of course, Apple should fix the bug, and they are not perfect. But the argument that "Oh, Microsoft or Windows is better, it would never happen with them" is ridiculous.

What apple bug, it's a chrome bug, check the original ai article

Ps. Guys something's got to be done about huddler and smillies I am still getting question marks on the left where the smilies I presume ar esupposed to be and no smilie shortcut ever appears in anything other than a question mark on mobile safari...ok we kinda accepted the blank spaces between posts (I wouldn't say gotten used to them) but to not be able to post the occasional emoticon...shhhhisssh

I can never show a smilie. Not sure what's going on. Post feedback on http://forums.appleinsider.com/f/12/feedback ?

I like the absence of smileys. Unfortunately, I sometimes do see them, sometimes not. Perhaps it has to do with the 'type of smiley', but I don't like blinking stuff on webpages that has a lot of text I want to read. Anyone kno of a smiley blocker?

PS Yoko likes 'em! iTunes link

No, we want a forum were people don't come in with inflammatory comments and loaded terminology specifically chosen to disrupt the forum. To call a spade a spade is not bigotry. We don't have a problem with opposing viewpoints, just when people try to come here and make trouble with the locals rather than have a calm discussion.


Really. What is it, a new version number every four months?


Firefox freezes too. That you haven't had it, good for you. I've not discerned a significant difference among the group of Firefox, Safari and Chrome, they all hog memory and they all have stability problems after a while, so I end up rotating among those three.


Chrome uses the same rendering engine that Safari does, so the rendering engine shouldn't be a problem.


As far as I'm concerned, all the browsers have problems to relatively similar degrees. I've been using Firefox over half a decade and it's been getting worse. Maybe it can't handle its legacy data in profiles, but I've had it happen on different computers.

The original development of WebKit was outside of Apple, for a Linux window manager. While Apple is a major force, others have a hand in it too. Google has some acknowledgements in Safari. Along with Lucent, Netscape, Cambridge and many other contributors.

mac books and goggle chrome don't mix the programs are different duh!!

???

Aren't you a global moderator? If you don't want people to "come in with inflammatory comments and loaded terminology specifically chosen to disrupt the forum," you have the ability to stop them. Many of the regular posters are disturbed by recent trends and no one at Apple Insider appears to be doing anything. There seems to be no response to insulting comments made toward members let alone inflammatory or extraneous messages with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response. I have resorted to blocking more than half of all posts in every discussion because of this disturbing trend.

That's happened to me exactly zero times in my history of using computers. Are you seriously saying users are installing Chrome without their knowledge?

Yes. These same users are the ones who have google toolbars, ask toolbars, yahoo toolbars, bing toolbars all running in ie.

If you worked in the IT industry with thousands of users you would see that the vast majority of users are complete and utter idiots who a) never read anything when installing a program and b) never question the fact that their browser has changed, only happy in that they have regained the 3 inches of screen that they previously lost to toolbars.

Toolbars I would believe but not a whole browser considering the steps you have to go through.

This is why I believe in "post-web" development. The WWW is a morass of nonsense for the most part. It's like wading through thicker and thicker mud to get to what I want. Then again maybe this is just a basic usability thing which most people have no clue about, including "professionals".

Something has happened. We are now in a post-PC post-Web world. And only a handful of people get this.

I agree, a lot of software installers try to install toolbars, and many do it in very sneaky ways. There are a lot of people that aren't paying any attention to what they're doing, but that's besides the point: I've never seen a case where a user installed a web browser without deliberately wanting it. For that, I would have to say *Citation Needed. I won't say it's impossible, but seems unlikely that it's happened very often. A toolbar is a very small piece of data, maybe can be made to fit several kb, a web browser is hundreds of megabytes.

 

No, you are intentionally misreading, a skill you have repeatedly proven to be very adept at.   It doesn't matter how many times a fictitious thing does not happen to you, it only matters if the real thing happens to others.   I do state that the defaults can change essentially unbeknownst to many users.

 

I have assisted PC users who have no clue what browser is opening and don't care.  At least until the newly defaulted browser doesn't have the expected certificates installed and a website won't open up.  Then they go "I never chose that!".

@fredaroony is intentionally misstating my previous post, he does this regularly with many posters who do not agree with his astroturf.  Maybe he should have the citation needed before you or anyone else believe anything he says.

Amen to that. I always have this one crash a day problem. sometimes it even becomes 3 crashes a day for a troubled week.