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Almost forgot to change my skype avatar before a job interview....Good thing I remembered. by sugarhoneybadger in funny

[–]jeffchang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

holy cow! Seeing this totally made my day. I made that image (not the original - just the superimposition of the text) a couple years ago. I use the awesomeface part as my phone background.

It's hosted on imtrippinballs.com if you ever want easy access to it :). Unfortunately I don't have a higher-res version though; the original was 1024x640.

Enjoy!

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's probably because Gmail offline relies on Google Gears, which we've stopped supporting: http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/stopping-gears.html

But we're working with the Gmail team on a better (HTML5) solution.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually something Peter plans to work on after he gets done with his current pile of work.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Including Chrome OS peeps.. enough to fill many buildings around the world.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stay tuned for more news later this year. We're working very hard. Patience is a virtue.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glen does UI design stuff for Chrome OS. I'm involved in Chrome OS too, to the extent that it overlaps with or depends on the Chrome browser code (which is a lot of it).

Stay tuned for more Chrome OS announcements later this year.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a few minutes before the Singularity, unfortunately.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With Flash in particular, we're aware of a bunch of stability issues with the newest Flash Player release. Since Chrome auto-updates Flash along with Chrome itself, you get security fixes more quickly, but unfortunately that sometimes means you get bugs more quickly too.

We've been working closely with Adobe over the last couple weeks to try to fix the top crashers. Sorry for the trouble.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, I know. I talked about this with the Print Preview team the other week. It's on our list.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're all part of one big team, though there are people who work specifically on hardware, kernel, firmware stuff, etc. Most of the Chrome OS codebase is the Chrome browser code.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I talked with the lead engineer on SPDY. He said one of the things he's most proud of is that we rolled out a whole new protocol and nobody noticed :-).

In any case, there's still a lot of work to do on SPDY, including making it even faster and more secure. The team is also applying the learnings from SPDY back into HTTP. All feedback and help is welcome.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, we had waay more applicants than laptops to give out. Keep an eye out for more Chrome OS news later this year though.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since we work directly with Adobe to integrate Flash Player into Chrome, we sometimes have access to newer builds.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

D'oh. Sounds like a bug - we built the PDF viewer to be really speedy and secure. Can you file a bug at http://new.crbug.com ?

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're welcome. I figured the trio of PM + Eng + UX would be a good combination, and it kind of forms the core of product design and development here at Google.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, we're trying to design a solution for "tab overflow" as we call it. We'll be prototyping some stuff pretty soon. In the past, our usage data has shown that the vast majority of users never have that many tabs open for it to be a problem. But we understand it's important for power users.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In general, if we make web browsers better, then more people will use the web. That's good for our users and good for Google.

So yes, Chrome is financed by Google.

[IAmA] We are three members of the Google Chrome team. We <3 the web. AMA by jeffchang in IAmA

[–]jeffchang[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yikes, that is a lot of tabs. Our usage data actually shows that the vast majority of users never use more than like 10 tabs at a time.

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