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Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by Variance »

I just had to shut down my chrome a few minutes ago and restart because I have persistent issues with tabs becoming unresponsive, where you can still scroll, but you can't click on links or highlight anything. The tabs either refuse to close entirely or take several seconds to close.

I know that chrome is supposed to be more robust by isolating the the processes of each tab, but my entire chrome hangs for 10 or 20 seconds at a time nearly once a week. I love the browser, because it feels very lightweight, but these issues have been dampening that feeling lately. I don't have any exotic plugins and I've got a new computer, so I figured I'd share that chrome is by no means as great for everyone as it is for most people.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by tonfa »

bigiain wrote: post #40
sillysaurus wrote: post #19

Here's a permanent fix: - Click on the wrench icon in the upper right. Click "Settings". - Scroll down to "Set which search engine is used when searching from the omnibox." - Click Manage search engines - Scroll all the way down. You'll see three textboxes. Fill the three textboxes in like so: Googol Googol http://www.google.com/search?q=%s - Press enter, so that it adds Googol to your list of search engines. Scroll…

If you're going to go to that much trouble anyway, may I suggest using: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s A little bit more privacy, a little bit less trackable (And, for this crowd, I should point out it'll strip the search query from the referrer when you click the search links in the ssl version of Google's SERPs - so the Google Analytics (or any other analytics tools) won't have those inbound search query…

> I should point out it'll strip the search query from the referrer when you click the search links in the ssl version of Google's SERPs - so the Google Analytics (or any other analytics tools) won't have those inbound search query strings.

Last time I looked I don't think it was true. Analytics will get the data from the magic string in the referrer.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by skrebbel »

pkasting wrote: post #44

Regarding all the suggestions to change search engines: Deleting the Google search entry is not an action that can easily be undone, and it will have drastic consequences, such as permanently disabling suggestions and instant for omnibox searches. Creating an alternate entry with the same URL does NOT suffice -- you can't manually enable any of this functionality on the alternate entry. If you're having this bug, I s…

Thanks for your openness. I must admit to being slightly amazed that Google would add an irreversible-delete-button to a consumer facing app, without appropriate warnings and whatnot. Is that just an oversight, or is it by design?

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by tjoff »

dfc wrote: post #36
JoshTriplett wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the bug-tracking system doesn't have a noise-free way to say "this affects me too", the way that bugzilla and launchpad do. And "this affects me too" can potentially provide useful information, to gauge how many people an issue affects and thus what priority to give it.

Your answer explained why it is helpful to google. It does not explain why individuals post "me too," or why people are posting "me too" here on the HN page... There is a similar behavior here on HN with nice- page / I-agree / congrats posts. I'm wary of a general guideline that I should only post to HN if I think the karma reward will be greater than X, but more often than not I think it helps make sure any of my po…

His answer explains that as well.

Since the per post karma have been removed the only way to show you agree is to write an "I agree" post. If I upvote it only the author will see that someone upvoted it, but it is also information that is valuable to others. Hence, the only way to truly support a comment is to write a "me too" or try to rewrite "me too" into some rambling as if you had something else to contribute with but don't (which is arguably even worse).

Not defending it or saying that hiding the per post karma is bad, but it is understandable and one of the drawbacks of hiding the per post karma.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by zalew »

and on linux:

Retrieving bug reports... Done

Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done

grave bugs of chromium (20.0.1132.41~r143299-1 -> 20.0.1132.43~r143823-1)

#679827 - chromium always hangs on https://github.com

#679848 - chromium: everything related to chrome:// is broken

Summary: chromium(2 bugs)

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by iamumassthrower »

TheDigitalNInja wrote: post #23

frustrating as hell, just giving bing a try for the night until they get it fixed.

Why do you guys insist on "trying bing"... I "try bing" for about 2 searches a month and consistently get worse results. This is a bug, big deal, get canary. You can also just go to google.com and search there.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by saturn »

bigiain wrote: post #47
saturn wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately seems to be US-only: > The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.

Well, more "dot com domain only" than "US-only". The dns magic underneath encrypted.google.com, www.google.com and www.google.com.au shows that doesn't matter - all three are "in Australia" (at the very least, within 21ms) from where I am (Sydney): [Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute www.google.com.au traceroute: Warning: www.google.com.au has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.87 traceroute to www-cctld.l.goo…

Wow, interesting, thanks for the research. I'm in Sydney too and I was surprised at how fast it was, but didn't think to look into it. Cool.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #32
lambda wrote: post #31

Why do dozens of people feel the need to say "+1" and "me too"? What could they possibly think they are adding to the discussion?

Because the bug-tracking system doesn't have a noise-free way to say "this affects me too", the way that bugzilla and launchpad do. And "this affects me too" can potentially provide useful information, to gauge how many people an issue affects and thus what priority to give it.

That's... absolutely not true. The bug tracker (not the ML) has a star that is meant specifically for that and is a publicly viewable counter.
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