Google Pixelbook Is Google’s New Chromebook

Post by ibotty » Fri, Sep 22, 2017, 8:18 AM UTC

fattire wrote: post #164

yohui wrote: post #82

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> 3. Two finger touchpad scroll doesn't work on Android apps for scrolling -- painful as heck when Wikipedia links open in the Android app in laptop mode I think that's a bug with the Wikipedia app. Touchpad scrolling seems to work in most Android apps. The Firefox app also had this bug, but they fixed it.

It's a bug with WebViews on Android apps on Chromebook: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=704051 Any Android app that has a WebView ( https://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebVi... ) seems to experience this bug. A workaround is to uninstall updates to the WebView package in the Play store, as the original shipping one does work with two-finger touchpad scrolling. If you star this…

Post by withdavidli » Wed, Sep 27, 2017, 8:36 AM UTC

hsod wrote: post #150

hypersoar wrote: post #99

From my experience with a 2013 Pixel I got from I/O, these machines come with a huge caveat: you can't get them repaired. At all . I cracked the glass over the screen on mine and called Google about getting it fixed, expecting them to tell me that it'd cost $X00 for an out-of-warranty repair. But they wouldn't take it at all. They suggested contacting 3rd-party repair shops, but some research into that nixed the idea…

Another "bad Google support on chromebooks" anecdote: I bought a Chromebook (forget which one) direct from Google. It was DOA, wouldn't even turn on. So I went through the whole return process and a few weeks later I got a replacement (which had some issues of it's own, but that's another story). After using it for a few days I realized I wasn't happy with it so I decided to return it. No problem, I thought, they hav…