Google Chrome

Try the standard def version, HD took an age to load for me.

sure, but why can't they just make it run properly instead? it's a modern machine

even my iphone 2g runs it properly

if you got the wonga they have, they should spend some of it on a proper port

#nonbetaversionmightfixalloftheabove

Not at all laggy on my Mac...

Wtf?

Nm.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4c3f678a1858ed8e&hl=en

Well I meant the hardware, these are only the first generation of Chromebooks, they will improve the hardware.

But, that aside, you just answered your own question, kind of. The cloud improves all the time, so your experience improves 'in real time'. Also the software that is on the machine automatically updates*.

*according to this rather nice video anyway:

Doesn't matter if the Could is the most advanced technology platform in the Universe if you've got no data connection though.

Chromebooks can do offline, according to their video. Don't know how that works though, given how the cloud works that does seem to be the obvious flaw...

If you remember Google Gears for Firefox, which basically allowed Google to make GMail and GCal work offline. Well that functionality is built into Chrome. Visit http://gears.google.com/ in Chrome. I think it functionality is tied to the 'Go Offline' option. Just looked in my tools menu and I don't have a 'Gears' option - so I'm not sure how to configure it.

Google Documents discontinued offline support a while ago. Unless it's come back and I haven't noticed.

I'm having problems loading images on his site.
If I click the quote button I can get an image url that I can copy pate to see the image in a new tab. But it won't load in the original post.
Safari doesn't have this problem and Chrome seems to only have it on lfgss... wtf?

Edit: Yeah, I know, holy resurrection and all. But this thread was the only relevant and I'd rather keep all the Chrome questions in one thread.

I'm having the same problem...

Both on https?

I am

Removed https and it seems to be working now, thanks.
Whet the hell does that mean anyway?

What does https mean? That your connection to the server is encrypted.

I'm currently trying to speed up https, and make it more secure.

To date, if someone embedded an image on an unencrypted connection (http) and you accessed it over an encrypted connection (https) then it's up to the web browser what to do.

Some browsers go strict and start warning, others prevent the image loading, some load the image. It's inconsistent.

To try and just make it work, I'm sending all requests for http files over https... but only if you access LFGSS via https.

It should work, but it's not working for everyone.

Which means I'm building test machines at the moment to figure it out.

I think I may have just fixed it.

I think it was because I was using SPDY on sslcache.se.

Anyhow... is it still happening? Accessing a heavy image page that you haven't accessed recently should test it.

Trying the photo of the day thread and all I get are small grey squares and lots of the spinny "load" gif in the tabs.

Really? Shucks. I thought I'd solved it.

I mean, I see a couple of grey squares, for images like this: http://spacereptilesareyourfriend.com/images/246-Shark-Grin.jpg

As in... image is broken, what's a guy gonna do?

But ignoring images that are actually broken on the end servers... everything https is now working fully and fully encrypted. I'm not seeing broken anything.

Boo.

Well it seems to work for me. Big grey squares with slowly loading photos. Good for me!

Thanks.

Yeah, just did a thorough round of tests in Firefox and Chrome on Windows.

Earlier I was seeing the problem, now I see it working consistently.

The only time the image fails to load is when the end server returns an error (i.e. the image no longer exists or it isn't publicly accessible).

Aroogah... if you restart your browser window, does it still error?

Appears to be resolved VB. Working for me now. As you were....

Looks like its working for me although it's slower than it usually is. Now i get grey squares that are the size of the image that slowly load down.

It might just be a crappy connection at work...

That's on SSL?

If so, it's because images that were on http are now on https.

Yes. Fair enough. I just did a speed test and i think they're throttling our connections at work at the moment due to the amount of people streaming the olympics.

I'll give it a whirl at home.

I'm still seeing very slow load times and lots of missing images (represented by tiny grey boxes) across the site.

As predicted, http instead of https fixes this...