Val Petruchek on Web-Development » chrome

Google Chrome: Use Space Bar to Confirm Form Resubmission

val — Thu, 30 May 2013 19:39:06 +0000

Ok, I can live with the fact that Google Chrome shows this “Confirm Form Resubmission” on certain pages where I typed URL manually (which means they were received via GET method, not POST).

But, Google, please, let me use Space Bar to click “Continue” button! I don’t want to switch to my mouse, navigate to that button and click it. I want to quickly hit space bar and continue web-development.

I’m seeing this window hundreds of time each day because I’m a web-developer. I don’t usually use my mouse when I’m testing forms. Tab key, Enter key are perfect for form navigation/submission, and Space Bar was perfect for resubmission confirmation.

Yes, it was working before. First, when Chrome was made public, it was not working. Then somebody fixed it and it was working just fine for years. And when I updated my Chrome earlier this week, it stopped working again.

Actually it looks like just a matter of setting focus to modal window since ‘Continue’ button looks like default window button.

Could you do that for me? Please?

Update from 2013-07-14: Google fixed this bug. Thank you, Google!

Google Chrome keeps crashing

val — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:25:01 +0000

If you Google Chrome keeps crashing with this message:

Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Relaunch now?

you can try disconnecting your google account from your chrome (temporary) – it looks like the problem is caused by something responsible on chrome syncing on google servers:

Funny “Print preview failed” bug in Google Chrome

val — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:00:07 +0000

3 links to print current page in HTML:

<a href="#" onclick="window.print();">print it #1a>

<a href=“#” onclick=“window.print();return false;”>print it #2a>

<a href=“javascript:window.print()”>print it #3a>

Question: What is wrong with one of them?

Same links clickable: print it #1, print it #2, print it #3

Answer: first link launches print interface in Google Chrome but Chrome fails to render print preview because of “Print preview failed” error. All three links work fine in Firefox and IE.

Change encoding in Google Chrome

val — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:00:50 +0000

This is how you can select page encoding in Google Chrome (click to enlarge):

Don’t you think it’s an overkill? Click the icon and navigate 3 menus deep? Also, is it only me or pointers (triangles) on the right with menus expanding to the left are really confusing?

P.S. This is Chrome for Ubuntu screenshot, but Chrome for Windows XP is the same.