The last discussion was mostly about how the title was linkbait. I want to hear people's opinions on whether they think it's appropriate for a browser (Chrome) to be designed such that it doesn't operate independently- that it can be crashed (or self destruct bug, insert your own word here) by a remote server at any time.<p>To my knowledge, Firefox doesn't do that. Safari doesn't do that. Internet browsers are probably the #1 most important app on a computer these days, browser reliability is vital.
Hmm, a load balancing bug which eats several production services for lunch and has a bunch of second-order effects. I wonder if it involves running a script and pushing the output without looking at a "diff" view to see what changed, and they managed to push a config which sent all of the world's traffic to one location.<p>It seems like just the other day when I was thinking about this very thing. <a href="http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/11/19/lb/" rel="nofollow">http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/11/19/lb/</a>
on the server side, it looks like the problem could have been avoided with better types - it seem that there was a confusion between status values that can include 0 and those that cannot (alternatively, perhaps better, there was no status for the case where the status was undefined?) and then a hand-written assertion that a particular case could not happen (and so was not tested for).<p>the bug report describes all that, roughly (if i've understood) but doesn't seem to be worried about the higher level issues - the inconsistent types and need for fragile human assertions about type logic.<p>(not java bashing - don't see why this couldn't be solved in java)<p>but i guess this is just a bug report. for an outage like this i suppose there's going to be a major review? is that all internal? would be interesting to watch.
Quick question for those that experienced it: did it take down the whole Chrome process, or just a single tab? I'd be very displeased if that happened again and I lost work as a result.
Bugs are a part of software life. Considering the great track record of Google Chrome, I'm not concerned and the issue was resolved pretty quickly. Even Google developers make mistakes as do the rest of us.
Im pretty unconfortable with my browser to have "hardcoded" code to connect me with one walled cloud.. be it google, microsoft or apple..<p>wheres is the choice? look like these days using anything software or hardware from the tech giants means to be their pets
Had significant issues with the Chrome Web Store yesterday - images not loading from some content servers, extensions failing to install ('The extension file was not a CRX'). I guess this was the cause.