Saturday, August 11, 2012

Google Chrome Blog: An even more secure Flash Player for our Windows u...

Google Chrome Blog: An even more secure Flash Player for our Windows u...: One of the great things about the web is that you can hop from page to page watching videos, playing games, or checking email without instal...      
Funny that - feel good about something to the extent of wanting to extol its virtues and then .... for several weeks Chrome developed a practice of helpfully telling me that 'Flash player has crashed' even when I didn't know it was doing anything.   I think it may have been something to do with FaceBook ... but it was too hard to try and track down what was happening.
Chrome developers have tried to make their baby as transparent as possible to ordinary users which is good, but I don't think they have gone as far as they can towards helping users find out what is going when their browser, or indeed any other system, has got the jitters.

I would expect that the great and mighty Google would want to be at the forefront of practical problem solving but they seem to be following a much more conservative and generally bureaucratic path - "got a problem? Well here's a database - go search it!"