Chrome Bug

February 4, 2010 4:19 PM

Bug: Flag drop-down box doesn't work in Chrome.

Not sure if this is an issue with Chrome or not, but when I try to flag a post in Chrome (Ubuntu 9.10), clicking on the dropdown box makes it disappear instead of dropping down options.

posted by l33tpolicywonk to Bugs at 4:19 PM (14 comments total)

This was mentioned over here the other day. What version are you running? Flagging is working ok for me on Ubuntu/Chrome 4.0.249.43. I think this is a problem with a beta version and I'm not sure if it's Chrome or us. The JavaScript for flagging is pretty simple, but if any JS gurus want to take a look and see if they can spot a problem maybe we can get a fix going for the latest versions of Chrome.
posted by pb (staff) at 4:36 PM on February 4, 2010

I'm using Chrome 4.0.249.78 (36714) w Windows XP and my drop down flags are working fine, if that's at all useful as a data point.
posted by bunnycup at 4:50 PM on February 4, 2010

Flagging working fine for me. Chrome 4.0.249.78 on WinXP
posted by at the crossroads at 4:50 PM on February 4, 2010

Same no flagging behavior here on XP with:

Google Chrome	5.0.307.1 (Official Build 37331) dev
WebKit	532.9
V8	2.0.6.4
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.307.1 Safari/532.9

posted by Skorgu at 4:52 PM on February 4, 2010

4.0.249.78 on Vista, that's right, I said it. Works fine.
posted by fixedgear at 4:53 PM on February 4, 2010

5.0.307.1 dev
Windows 7

Does not work. Looks like it is just the developer versions.
posted by SAC at 5:02 PM on February 4, 2010

I'm experiencing the bug running 5.0.307.5.
posted by l33tpolicywonk at 5:07 PM on February 4, 2010

I'm one of the folks who originally complained about flagging not working in Chrome, but I must have gotten some nightly update (I'm on the beta channel) and now it works fine. I'm running 4.0.249.78.

So I'd assume that it'll fix itself as the developers make a new dev build in a day or two. Sorry chaps.
posted by shakespeherian at 5:31 PM on February 4, 2010

Flagging wasn't working for me with Chromium, but it seems to work okay in chrome (running ubuntu 9.1)
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 5:50 PM on February 4, 2010

Flagging working fine with Chrome (4.0.249.49 (35163) beta) Mac OS X 10.6.2
posted by dhruva at 7:37 PM on February 4, 2010

works just fine on my chrome 4.0.225.32 comedore 64.
posted by special-k at 10:58 PM on February 4, 2010

Would have been funnier if you'd spelled Commodore right, but heh
posted by fixedgear at 1:36 AM on February 5, 2010

*/me attempts to hijack thread for his own Chrome-woes.*

So, as a fellow Linux/Chrome user, have you( pb, or anyone else who might know) found any way to get pdf's to open properly in-browser? It seems like a bug that was fixed a while ago except for in the Linux builds...
posted by kaibutsu at 9:30 AM on February 5, 2010

I'm using an extension that opens .pdfs as Google Docs. Works like a charm.
posted by fixedgear at 9:57 AM on February 5, 2010