Chrome Update

I promised that I would keep you updated with my efforts using Google Chrome and I am afraid that the problem that I was having yesterday trying to create a link in my posts while writing in Blogger with Chrome as the browser do not seem to be me having a bad day.  I have tried this again and I still can't get it to work.  

I'm not a computer whizz-kid, just a fairly competent 50-something lady, who is able to do most things that you need to do on a computer without too much bother, but this simple task seems to be beyond my capabilities at the moment.  I expect that there is a simple explanation, but I don't as yet know what it is, and the Help on Chrome does not seem to cover the problem that I have encountered.

At some point today I shall be reporting the problem that I have encountered to Chrome in the hopes that they can point out the error of my ways, but for the moment my advice is this: Chrome is great as a browser, but I would not give up your current browser just yet, as there are undoubtedly some problems that need to be fixed if you want to do anything more than simply using it to surf.

I will report back to you when I have sorted my problem.

I Loaded Google Chrome

Yesterday I wrote a post about the new browser on the block called Google Chrome. I couldn't load it at that time because as with all things American we had to wait until it 11am Pacific Time for it to become available. As the evening progressed I forgot all about it, so it wasn't until I was playing on the computer in the early hours of this morning, because I couldn't sleep, that I got around to doing it. It loaded easily and I started to play with it; I was quite impressed. I particularly liked the idea of pages that you go to frequently being stored as thumbnails on the front page.

Everything seemed fine. I thought that I would write a post about my first experiences with the new browser, and that I would create a link with my earlier post so that anyone who hadn't read it could see what I had to say; I hit a problem. I couldn't create the link. No matter how I tried it just would not do it. My immediate reaction was why should this be a problem? After all I use Google Blogger for my blog so there shouldn't be a problem creating a post in Google Chrome, should there? Well, there certainly seemed to be. I saved the post, selected 'edit posts' found the post that I was working on and selected 'edit' and tried again; Shift + Ctrl + a, as I always do, but nothing happened.

Strange. So I closed Google Chrome and tried to open Mozilla FireFox, the browser that I had previously been using. Up came a message telling me that it was already running so I needed to close it before I could open it again. But I hadn't opened it today, so what was going on? I decided to reboot the computer and try again. So after it had closed itself down and restarted I tried opening FireFox again. Hey presto; it opened straight away, I signed in to Google and selected 'edit post'. When I tried to create the link this time it worked immediately.

Have I found a bug already or is it my computer misbehaving? I'm not sure, but I have decided to finish this post in FireFox, but will open Chrome later to do another post that I have in mind. I'll make sure that there is at least one link in that and then we shall see what happens.

Teething problems in computer applications can be a real pain!