Yeah I have noticed that. There is a bug open for it: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=11901
I agree it is weird :). - a 2009/5/15 PhistucK <[email protected]>: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
