Google Releases Updates for Chrome

Google’s new browser Chrome has been getting varied reviews. It seems the usefulness of the browser depends on your point of view, where those in the tech industry are, kinda like me, a little “neh” about it, others in the mainstream media are raving about it. It is being called all sorts of things including a replacement OS and other such nonsense. Which might be nice, if it were possible…

It also has a few issues. I couldn’t help but notice that they had to fix the carpet bombing flaw which affected other browsers, and they had a few issues with other sites that they’ve now fixed.

I couldn’t help but notice the blog post for beta-0214929, which included fixes for such minor sites as

• http://search.daum.net/
• http://search.empas.com/
• http://meta.ua/
• http://search.naver.com/
• and http://search.yahoo.com/

Hmm. Google’s new Terminator of browsers, designed to hunt down and kill other browser because it integrates with Google Gears and other stuff Google offers (which is like everything) conveniently didn’t work with a few minor search engines… Well that’s okay, it was only a few little ones. Oh, and Yahoo!. Well isn’t that a coincident :p

I wouldn’t be surprised if the internal name for this project is the Googlenator…

I also thought it was interesting to note that the “Links to this Blog Post” contained a rather notable entry:

Screenshot of Google

… Ahh but they allow it, so they must be “open”. :p

Col.

Google Chrome; A second look

Following on from my previous post about Google Chrome, Googles WebKit based new browser I think I have some answers to my issues.

The first issue was that the background colours on my select lists were black. It turns out that this is due to the use of the CSS directive background-color: transparent;. Both this and background-color: inherit; appear to cause select elements to have a black background. I don’t see any obvious reason why I had this so I’ve removed it. I suspect that this might have been added for an IE fix – but if that’s the case its okay because I’m already using IE conditional comments to load IE only style sheets.