Odd flagging menu behaviour with Chromium

October 18, 2009 1:53 AM

Possible bug with Chrome/Chromium in flagging UI.

I've been using Chromium (Linux port of Chrome) a lot recently (and like it) but have noticed an odd behaviour when flagging on Metafilter.

The issue is that if I click on the [!] the menu appears as one line, and if I then click on the menu, it disappears again.

I can use the down arrow key to scroll down the menu and the Enter key to select an item, so it's still functional, but far from usable.

This might actually be a Chromium bug but I thought I'd better report it just in case. I haven't noticed any similar issues with select widgets on other sites so it seems to be something specific to Metafilter.

posted by i_am_joe's_spleen to bugs at 1:53 AM (8 comments total)

That's a beta, so they don't support it.

Don't feel bad, happened to me :p
posted by The Devil Tesla at 2:07 AM on October 18

I just tried to flag your post (dev version of chrome) and had the same thing happen.
posted by Obscure Reference at 5:48 AM on October 18

also, the hotlinking button in comments doesn't work on chrome for the mac.
posted by empath at 9:39 AM on October 18

Same issue on Windows (using 4.0.222.12). Also looks like I automatically flagged your post just by clicking the [!].
posted by effbot at 3:34 PM on October 18

Is Chrome for Mac at all usable yet?
posted by middleclasstool at 7:00 PM on October 18

Is Chrome for Mac at all usable yet?

There are problems with bookmarking, and all Chrome versions are RSS stupid, but it's definitely fast and renders pages nearly perfectly. This flagging bug is the only problem I've had with the browser so far.

I'm really excited for the browser becoming feature complete.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 7:04 PM on October 18

Is Chrome for Mac at all usable yet?

I use it pretty much exclusively. It mostly has issues with flash problems, but it doesn't crash or hang. The worst thing that ever happens is i have to refresh a tab to reload flash when flash crashes (which is often, with all my browsers).
posted by empath at 7:17 PM on October 18

Windows XP with Chrome 3.0.197.27 (Beta Channel) has no problem flagging your post as "other". Sorry mods for the extra attention.
posted by Xoder at 1:44 PM on October 19