3 Chrome bugs I've been bitten by

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14 years ago

The first one is definitely a pernicious (and known) bug. The second is probably my own fault but I think Safari handles it smarter. The third is, ok, I just googled around and it's not a bug, but it drove me nuts a couple times and is sort of relevant to the SOPA discussion so I'll leave it on the list!

1. If you paste into a textarea, the newlines get silently stripped when you submit the form.

Documented here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=104620

But it's more insidious than in that example, because you never find out the newline-stripped version got submitted.

I've sent some embarrassing emails where everything was smashed together into a single block of text.

2. Double-clicking a submit button submits the form twice. Firefox does this too, so I guess it's my app's fault for not handling the duplicate submissions properly, but Safari gets this right.

3. DNS pre-fetching. Make sure it's off before testing your move to a new webhost! http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/dns-prefetching-or-pre-resolving.html

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