Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers

If you use Chrome along with Google's Sync, you may have noticed something strange Monday: normally stable Chrome crashing. An article at Wired (excerpt below) explains why: "Late Monday, Google engineer Tim Steele confirmed what developers had been suspecting. The crashes were affecting Chrome users who were using another Google web service known as Sync, and that Sync and other Google services — presumably Gmail too — were clobbered Monday when Google misconfigured its load-balancing servers. ... Steele wrote in a developer discussion forum, a problem with Google's Sync servers kicked off an error on the browser, which made Chrome abruptly shut down on the desktop. 'It's due to a backend service that sync servers depend on becoming overwhelmed, and sync servers responding to that by telling all clients to throttle all data types,' Steele said. That 'throttling' messed up things in the browser, causing it to crash."

Sync was sunk

[smittyoneeach]

Sync was sunk
By a bristly punk.
Having less facial drag,
He'd've more clearly thunk.
Burma Shave

This explains it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Here I thought it was crashing because I installed a plugin to make it more like Firefox.

Line by line debugging reveals...

[Sasayaki]

//try
//{
tabs.sync();
//}
//catch
//{
//printf("Oops, cloud sync failed. Terribly sorry, Captain. We'll fail gracefully and just make do without.");
//}
// James, I fucking told you not to use try-catch statements, they're too slow. The code works and a cloud failure is basically impossible (five nines, baby) so just chill, will you?
// P.S. /* comment */ is for chumps.

Re:Firefox + Windows = Opera

[maxwell demon]

$ tr "Firefox Opera" "Opera Midori" < parentcomment

That gives:

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I'm not sure what this is intended to tell me, though.

Top that? Son, I'm gonna obliterate it.

[Anonymous Coward]

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I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom
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and I even got my own dance

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Where is your God now, Frosty Piss?

Re:Top that? Son, I'm gonna obliterate it.

[Frosty Piss]

I am... Humbled...