*Not so much in the extensions and bookmarks area here, but, have you
noticed that weird behavior where clicking on a toolstrip button makes
Chrome focus on an arbitrary tab all of a sudden?* *
*☆PhistucK


On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 00:18, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Jack,
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM, jack <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have spent some time playing around the new release of Chrome,
> > especially building user preference system using the bookmarking and
> > script/extension communication aspects. I have to say it is not
> > reliable enough yet to build a real system.
>
> Using the bookmark system for storage was just an idea for a quick
> hack, but I'm still interested in the bugs you found.
>
> > 1) Bookmarking: bookmarking system only works well for directly loaded
> > extension page (i.e., type or copy "chrome-extension://*/*.html" and
> > enter). If the extension page is loaded by hyperlink from other pages,
> > or by communication event (within onMessage), bookmarking is quite
> > unreliable. e.g., if the extension page contains some javascript
> > creating a bookmark item in onload(), by merely refreshing the page I
> > got different results randomly (sometime w/ the item created, sometime
> > in a different folder, sometime nothing at all).
> >
> > 2) chrome.bookmarks.search will not find any folder
>
> I'll try and make some test cases for these two bugs and replicate them.
> Thanks.
>
> > 3) Open the communication channel between the script and extension
> > makes the whole Chrome much more vulnerable to crashing.
>
> Hm, if you can come up with a test case for this, I'd appreciate it.
> Otherwise, we'll just keep an eye out for crashes related to the
> communication channel.
>
> > 4) Transfer large amount of data (say 2K bytes) via postMessage is
> > extremely slow (multiple sec.)
>
> I'll try and create a test case for this, too.
>
> > 5) Is the "hidden_pages" in json still working, or not yet, or not any
> > longer? Hidden page is good for the communication w/o exposing any UI
> > as toolstrip does, but it didn't work for me so far.
>
> It's not fully baked yet, but it will be "background_page".
>
>
> Thanks for the feedback,
>
> - a
>
> >
>

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