Month: June 2012

Strange behavior in Chrome on Win 7

Been noticing for a while now that the first time Chrome is launched after clean booting into Win 7 the pages in tabs do not load correctly.

I had a little time to troubleshoot and here is what I’ve found:

* Only happens after a cold boot or reboot then launching Chrome for the first time
* If I click in the address bar and hit enter the address in that tab will load
* I normally open 3 home tabs; G+, Twitter, and Google. The result is the same if reduced to only one tab (Google)
* I have 2 extensions installed in Chrome; goo.gl URL Shortener, and Replies and More
* If both extensions are disabled or removed all returns to normal
* If Replies and More extension only is enabled / re-installed all tabs load except the G+ tab. (Matt Mastracci, I still wouldn’t do without your extension. It should be baked into G+ as far as I’m concerned!)
* If goo.gl URL Shortener extension only is enabled / re-installed no tabs load correctly.
* I dual boot with Linux, on the Linux side all is well.

I’ve had these extensions installed for quite some time. This issue only recently came to light. I don’t know if google made a change to Chrome, a recent MS update knocked things out of whack (wouldn’t be the 1st time for that!), or if the extension developers made a change to the extensions.

It’s only a minor nuisance, but a bit annoying simply knowing that something isn’t quite right. Has anyone else seen this problem or have a possbible solution, besides the obvious..”It works in Linux, use Linux!”

Notice nothing is trending up on Google???

Must be bedtime

I’ve been wondering where they disappeared to…

Problem installing Google Voice and Video Chat Chrome plugIn – FIXED (for me)

I was recently having problems installing Google Voice and Video Chat plugin for Chrome on a new Windows (Win7 x64).  After downloading and  installing the plugin and restarting Chrome my camera would not be detected, and would ask to reinstall the plugin.

I went into the {Drive}:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Local\Google\Google Talk Plugin directory nothing was there except a log file.  I went back to a working profile and seen that the full install was there.  I could copy the install to the new profile, it worked but that would be cheating… I wanted to figure out how to fix this without copying the install from one profile to another.

So I backed up a couple directories and a file named googletalkpluginaccel.msi in the {Drive}:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Local\Google\Update\Install\{ADCFD26D-E545-4AD6-AEA6-4D55EE3ADD19} directory.  Double-clicking this file to install did nothing, BUT right clicking on the file and clicking repair from the context menu completed the plugin installation.  After restarting Chrome it worked fine!