Is Google Chrome Sick or Dying?
I really thought for quite a while that the Google Chrome browser was the best. I was frustrated with seemingly constant Firefox updates at the time when I wrote the post titled Chrome vs Firefox-Internet Marketing Best Browser Blog Discussion. That post turned out to be very popular and it attracted a lot of comments. 219 approved comments to be specific.
Many of the commenters preferred Firefox which at that time surprised me because I could find nothing wrong with Chrome then and plenty with Firefox. You can have a look at the older post by clicking on its title I mention above.
In the last few days, today is November 19, 2012, I have noticed something that I would never have thought possible. Google Chrome messing up the way it displays things and making them crooked and much more. Of course at first I thought that something is wrong with everything else but Chrome. Google would not allow this sort of thing to happen right?
Well it did and it is still going on right now as I write this. All other browsers that I tried display the same page correctly with no distortions whatsoever but Chrome is making it look like it was designed by somebody stoned, drunk or with severely damaged eyesight.
So right now any browser you can think of is working better than the almighty Google Chrome.
I turned off my computer and after turning it back on, the Chrome browser is still displaying old images which have been updated on a page and which show properly in Firefox.
I didn’t have to clear the history or do anything in Firefox. I shouldn’t have to do that in Chrome either.
Recently I found that, apparently, in order to clear history, cookies or whatever in your Chrome browser you have to log in. Give me a break.
Right now Google Chrome is broken. Will they fix it? Eventually, probably. But as far as I’m concerned they really blew it big time. Having to log in to clear your history, cookies or do anything that can be done routinely and with ease on Firefox and other browsers is bad enough to turn off a lot of people.
Add to that the fact that Chrome is obviously capable of distorted display of pages and images and showing old images instead of new ones even after the computer has been turned off and back on.
As if the above wasn’t enough, the speed of Chrome seems to be decreasing lately too. Oh, and I just remembered another thing which happened more than once before and a very short while ago: I put a web address in Chrome and after pressing enter it couldn’t find the page saying there’s no data there or something to that effect. I had to enter the same thing again and all of a sudden the data was there because it worked? I think the data was there all the time but Chrome couldn’t see it.
I am shocked and disappointed. I do hope things will get better soon but I’m not holding my breath.
How about you? Have you also noticed the rapidly decreasing quality of what Chrome does?
How about the necessity to log in, as mentioned above, does that bother you?
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Authored by Vance Sova
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The necessity to log in does bother me because it is not the case with other browsers. Though I have not noticed any problems in Chrome in the recent past, it has been considerably slow in work. Hopefully Google fixes it because I love working on it.
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Vance Reply:
November 19th, 2012 at 11:55 pm
Hi Lucy,
Thank you for the comment. Having to log in is just too much and it’s part of their quest to get even more control over people than they have now. They’ll fix the browser problems, I’m sure, but I doubt very much that they’ll give up on attempting to force people to log in. And for that reason they will likely not gain the total domination which they so obviously seek. Not unless other browsers will try to force people to log in too, which I don’t think is likely. But one never knows eh?
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of any discussion boards that cover the same topics talked
about here? I’d really love to be a part of group where I can get responses from other experienced people that share the same interest. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks a lot!
Vance Reply:
November 23rd, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Hi Shayla,
If you are really serious about this you can join a forum on almost any topic. Just google it. My guess is that you are just trying to get a link. If I’m wrong, here’s another suggestion: read all my posts and comments. You’ll get a lot of answers that way and more of them if you post serious comments and questions yourself. Somebody will answer them.
Glad to hear that they will fix this problem soon. I am not so sure about all the browsers forcing us to log in. It may happen or may not. As far as Google is concerned, it should fix these types of problems that people are encountering soon or else lose some loyal fans in the process.
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Vance Reply:
November 23rd, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Hi Lucy,
They seem to have fixed soe things already but some images are still distorted in Chrome right now. No matter what they do, they can’t be trusted 100%. And the log in issue is not going away ever with Chrome I think.
Lucy Reply:
November 24th, 2012 at 2:02 am
You are right about that. I for one am not going to trust chrome the way I used to. Still I have not faced any problems on chrome distorting image and I hope I don’t have to.
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I have also noticed a cursor issue which happend when trying to select a drop down box on Chrome but this doesnt happend in FF and so a few things have alerted me to the fact that FF may be the way to go too actually!!
Vance Reply:
November 23rd, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Hi John,
Firefox seems to be working better right now but it’s not perfect either. It’s great that we still have some choices right now.
Vance.
My google chrome is working fine though it show some problems but i won’t mind coz it is still far better than any other browsers available in the Market. Google chrome is no doubt easy to use and speedy at the same time and the problems you were talking about will soon be fixed I hope.
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Vance Reply:
November 23rd, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Hi Ashish,
I used to think that Chrome was the best too but I don’t anymore. While some things I wrote about in this post have been fixed, one key displaying mistake is still there and that is not acceptable. No other browser I tried distorts the image, only Chrome.
I hope that your faith in Chrome won’t be undermined. It may be wise not rely on it 100%.
Cheers,
Vance.
This is bizarre, but a few weeks ago, after a year of working fine, the custom CSS stopped working in Chrome. Are there any known problems with loading custom CSS in Chrome? I am embedding with the JS option, though not even the theme preview loads it.
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Vance Reply:
November 23rd, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Hi Katrin,
I’m not an expert on Chrome by any means. I just write what I observe. Some of the issues that I described in this post seem to be solved but some things aren’t still displayed as they should even now and the problem is Chrome. I don’t know which computer system you are using. Firefox is working on both PC and Mac so you may want to try using Firefox and see if it works better for what you want to do than Chrome. Firefox is not perfect either. For any editing of themes and things like that, make sure you back up the file before you edit it so that you can go back to it if something goes wrong.
I hope this helps. Thanks for commenting.
Cheers,
Vance.
I have gone back and forth between Chrome and Firefox and, overall, much prefer Chrome. It has it’s shortcomings and so does Firefox. But, all in all, I prefer Chrome.
I haven’t noticed what you are mentioning with the messed up Chrome? I haven’t noticed any crookeness or any of that but maybe I was lucky? I am still using Chrome but am thinking I might go back to firefox because I HAVE noticed that my computer has been locking up much more than usual. Thanks for the heads up though, it might just be why I am having a problem!
I switched to Google Chrome about 12 mnonths back and just in the last couple of month have been having issues similar to yours in that when I enter a web address in the browser and pressing enter it says it can’t find the page and there’s an error. I try again and more often that note the website comes up!! Very annoying….as it is happening almost every time. Time to go back to Firefox maybe??
Vance Reply:
November 29th, 2012 at 1:36 am
Hi Daisy,
Firefox seems to be doing a better job right now. And you don’t have to log in to clear history etc. as you do when using Chrome. It’s certainly good not to rely exclusively just on one browser.
Thank you for commenting.
Cheers,
Vance.
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I use Google chrome. Google chrome is the best browser to me it some features is very useful. I using website browsing within google. But some problem on google chrome it can not find the page there page website or page there an error. I hope that chrome fix problem and solve it soon.
Vance Reply:
December 3rd, 2012 at 12:02 am
Thanks for the comment. I hope they’ll fix it too.
I switched to chrome about a year ago, but I am thinking about going back to Firefox. Just as many add-ons and seems reliable.
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Vance Reply:
December 3rd, 2012 at 12:01 am
Hi Ben,
Firefox seems better right now but who knows what will happen down the line. I prefer to be using at least two different browsers so that I don’t completely rely on any single browser.
Weirdly enough, I don’t get distorted images though some sites that used to load before are no longer loading. It’s a strange problem. Loved the cat video, he looked just like my Dimitri. Is the cat a Russian blue or a Korat?
Vance Reply:
December 2nd, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Hi Lexi,
I just had a no data or something like that sign when I went to a site. Going there again it worked. This has been happening since before I wrote the post. I’m not sure which cat video you watched. If it’s the one just under the post then the cat and kittens there are of no special breed, meaning I down’t know what breed it is as they are a mixture. You’re not the first person that thinks they might be Russian blue so perhaps they could partly be that. Thanks for the comment and for watching the video. It would be great if you could also google+ the post and like it on Facebook. That would be fantastic.
Cheers,
Vance.
The biggest problem I have with Chrome is the lack of compatible userscripts… I find myself forced to use Firefox sometimes and I hate that. I would like to just use one browser and one browser only!!!
Vance Reply:
December 2nd, 2012 at 11:47 pm
Hi Brian,
I think that it’s good to be able to use more than one browser. While it would be convenient to have only one browser and to use it exclusively, it would also mean relying on it 100% which is not good when things go wrong.
Well, I am fond of chrome. I used IE till 8 but since than I switched and continue using chrome. I didn’t find any changes except from last couple of months it is getting slower but a week ago when one of my friends told me what is going on with firefox add ons, I was like astonished because for last 2 years I haven’t used any other browser and obviously Log in was irritating at inception and it is much more now. But what I really want to ask here is if somebody could provide me key differences between latest positions of both the browsers.
Vance Reply:
December 6th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
Hi,
It would be cool to know your name. I’m sure it’s not composed of a digit and 2 capital letters. Otherwise, thanks for the comment. As I said in the post, right now I prefer Firefox. The days when I favored Chrome are gone, at least for now.
I can’t really give a comparative table of what Firefox and Chrome can do which would give you what you want. Hopefully other readers, some of which are site and software developers will be able to do that at least in part or invite you to their site that may cover all that information.
Please do include your name the next time like I do below.
Cheers,
Vance.
Ever since I started my career, I used to love Firefox. I love to say that there are several adds on that are compatible on it. Chrome is just my second option. 🙂
Vance Reply:
December 6th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Hi Rusty,
Thanks for adding your opinion. Do you sill love Firefox or is it in the past now? When you say I used to it’s a bit confusing. If you don’t mind I’d like you to come back and make it clear.
Cheers,
Vance.
Rusty@Rustenburg Reply:
December 6th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Hi Vance,
As you wished, I am back just to clarify my comment.. yes I still love firefox even up to now…Actually, I spend a lot of time with it browsing the entire net… 🙂 I only use chrome just for opening my email account.
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Vance Reply:
December 6th, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Hi Rusty,
Thanks for coming back to make your previous comment clear.
That’s fantastic. I really appreciate it.
See you here soon. Have a great weekend.
Cheers,
Vance.
Vance Sova, you have wrote a very unique and good post, i’m using Google Chrome since a long time, but not get any problem yet, i don’t think there is any other browser who can stand against Google Chrome, East or West Chrome is the Best 😉
Vance Reply:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:38 pm
Hi Akhilesh,
Thank you for the comment. I see that you feel very strongly about the superiority of Chrome. I encourage you to once in a while check other browsers too because things change. For example I really liked Firefox and then for a while they didn’t do thinks so well. But now I’d say they are at least as Good as Chrome but probably much better. I still see quirks in Chrome once in a while but there’s no doubt that it’s a good browser.
Cheers,
Vance
Yes I also had the cursor issue on Chrome buton FF was fine
Vance Reply:
March 7th, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Thanks for the comment.
Chrome has fixed the problem as I suspected they would but it took them quite a long time.
Hi Vance,
Beside showing the old images (I have to clear the history & cache), I also have a difficulty to keep my facebook online on chrome. I still don’t know what’s wrong with it, so I open other browser simulaneously (safari or firefox).