Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Google Services That Don't Work on Chrome

It's very normal that certain Google services don't work as intended on IE. We even get message on IE6 that the user should shift to a modern browser, Chrome touted as one major example of those modern browsers.

But of late I am coming across Google services that are not working on Chrome but are working flawlessly on new versions of IE. Coming from a giant like Google, I find it disappointing. And also bit surprising, the front-end specific coding and very rigorous browser-testing is a standard procedure in Cognizant, I would expect Google would at least test their services on their own browser.

I am huge fan of Google. In fact among my friends I am mocked that I keep pushing for G+ usage, even on my FB stream. I hope they notice these problems and correct ASAP.

- Latitude.google.com: On Chrome the page doesn't load properly, so you can't even see the basic content. On IE it works perfectly.
- Alerts.google.com: When you try to modify an entry, or create a new entry; on Chrome you can only update the main search-term. The details like frequency etc. are not editable. On IE it works perfectly.