The fight continues…

If I try to access a Silverlight application that is hosted on pretty much any web site, Chrome handles it without a problem.  But when I try to access a Microsoft web site that has a Silverlight application, the webpage complains that the plugin has expired. Expired?

This is the page that complains. That page throws a message box. Not good. Now if you do not respond quick enough, Chrome will popup another message box asking if you want to stop the unresponsive plugin. Not good either. In this case it is the browser asking the question. But you never know. Message boxes should be banned from html and java script and also from all plugins. Only the browser process should dish out message boxes.

In the above page I think it was MSTECHED site ad or something that was causing the problem.

I clicked yes on the button that takes me to the Microsoft web page for downloading Silverlight. That web page says this browser is not compatible with Silverlight. Well, not according to all the Silverlight applications I have used on the web. Everything works fine.

There is a clear distinction between fair competition and animosity. These two are showing the latter with elementary school maturity.

You may already know this but I thought I would share this for people who hasn’t noticed.

Usually when you don’t want to lose the current page, you right click on a link and select open in a new tab or window. But then you need to open and close many tabs or windows. This opening and closing costs a lot of system resources espcially in Chrome where each tab is a separate process. But Chrome has a better method. Drag and drop links in to a tab or window.

Let’s say you are on a web page. You see a link you want to open. You can drag the link to the top of the window and drop it on to the + sign or any other tab. The link will open in that tab. You can go back the page and drag and drop another link the same tab or a new + sign.

It is also possible to drag a tab out of the browser to create a new window. Likewise you can drag tabs between two different windows.

You can also rearrange the tabs by dragging them to new locations.

Now you know why I decided to ditch internet explorer. Forefox couldn’t do that even with it’s better standards conformance. Of course, Internet Explorer is the most experienced person in the block, so I need to go back there whenever Chrome craps out. Like when I wanted to download the DVD image of Open Suse 11.1. My clicks were vaninshing in to thin air. No error message, nothing. IE started the download but crapped out at 320 MB. I got through using FlashGet and IE. But that is another story.

I just installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 RC on a Shuttle xpc box. 64 bit. The first application I installed is Chrome. There is no need to add the in process plugin argument anymore to the chrome. It works just fine after the installation. This box is connected to my TV using HDMIvideo and SPDIF audio. I had Vista on it until now. Vista wouldn’t play DTS or Dolby Digital through the Denon AVI. Windows 7 played both right after the first boot. No driver installation nothing required. The display on the TV is much better than that was on Vista.

Chrome wins again?

I clicked on a link from Google search in Chrome and got the following error. It detected that the site has malware linked to it. I opened the same site on IE and it just showed me the site. No detection, no warning, nothing. Another question I have is, if Google already knows (it has indexed the site) there is malware hosted on the site, why it is appearing in the search list? At least there should be a warning. That way users from other browsers would know that it is not safe to click that link. Do no evil doesn’t mean do no good either. Damn competition. Anyway, it doesn’t look like anything was harmed. 

All day I was clicking links in Chrome to see how it handles malware. Here is a real malware almost blocked by Chrome. It would still go ahead if I gave permission. Avast detected the malware too.