*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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
