> Chrome freezes and/or crashes. Note: this is even worse if the URL was opened from an intent. In that case, Chrome can end up completely bricked because upon restart it will immediately attempt to re-open the URL that crashed it. I could not recover from this without having to fully "Clear Storage". You’re telling me Chrome does not have that feature where after a few failed attempts, the browser offers you to not…
Windows has historically recovered from repeated unsafe shutdowns better than Linux. Squeaky wheels getting grease, and such.
On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app (see: bloatware). That means you can't clear its app data nor uninstall it, effectively bricking Chrome permanently. The only thing you can do is uninstall the updates, which force resets its persistence, losing all of your stored data/sessions. If you've already done that... tough luck, I guess? What an awful bug.
Tangential... does that smell like built in spying tweaks to anyone else? Edit - quick googling says Xiaomi have their own browser as default / system, is that what you're referring to?
On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app (see: bloatware). That means you can't clear its app data nor uninstall it, effectively bricking Chrome permanently. The only thing you can do is uninstall the updates, which force resets its persistence, losing all of your stored data/sessions. If you've already done that... tough luck, I guess? What an awful bug.
> On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app You mean on Xaiomi OS's (I forget their name).
When I open https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=125262... i get permission denied. Why am I getting "Permission denied" trying to view a bug?
It was marked security-sensitive some time within the last 14 hours. It was available to me when the link was submitted here on HN.
> Note: this is even worse if the URL was opened from an intent. In that case, Chrome can end up completely bricked because upon restart it will immediately attempt to re-open the URL that crashed it. I could not recover from this without having to fully "Clear Storage". Too late for me. Not even from intent. Chrome force stop later, it still tries to load it and immediately crashes.
Off Topic: I don't get it why, after 10 years of mobile browser development, there still is no "close all tabs at end" option. Every time I visit my parents, I have to clean up their 150+ open chrome android tabs because they don't understand how to properly clean up their browsing sessions. Why on earth would I want to open the same old tabs in the morning, that I already looked at the day before?
There are such options on Firefox. Auto close and close on quit, although annoyingly the latter now requires choosing quit from the app menu instead of just closing the app like a few years ago. There is also "close all tabs" if you just hold the tab button, as well as in the ... menu on the tab screen
On older versions of Chrome just goes to google.com and searches for this string. That's why i disabled automatic updates on my phone. Give me a changelog and i update. Bug fixes and performance improvements it's not a changelog.
i stopped bothering about that.
i used to not like updated, and just postponed them. then noticed that after a while android would just update everything silently (without my consent).
so i guess... whatever, it's a lost cause. I hate modern smartphones.
When I open https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=125262... i get permission denied. Why am I getting "Permission denied" trying to view a bug?
It was marked security-sensitive some time within the last 14 hours. It was available to me when the link was submitted here on HN.
can anyone post a mirror? archive.org doesn't seem to support bugs.chromium.org :/