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
>>
>> >>
>
>

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