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chrome update took away pretty mobile bookmark favicons

Did the latest update of chrome today and it has stopped the proper favicons on mobile bookmarks, now just get the rubbish small ones.Has anyone else noticed this, or got a fix?

Because of this I didn't do the update on my S3.


Yeah it looks like they did on Chrome Beta. Don't think it can be fixed though. Doesn't bother me too bad.
 
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Well, I thought I'd have a look at the update to see what the fuss was all about. Big mistake.

Basically it's broken; most sites I use don't even display - I just get a blank screen. This includes some big sites like ebay and UK government sites like the Met Office weather site. Others display normally (Google Play for example) but they're in the minority.

I've uninstalled it (of course) but that threw away all my bookmarks and (worse) my saved passwords and forms. I'm very, very annoyed that Google can release this piece of junk as a finished product :-(
 
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Just a little follow-up - it seems the update doesn't play nice with Adblock, causing the blank white screen on many sites. Since no other browser does this - including earlier versions of Chrome - I can only assume this is a deliberate action by Google to discourage the use of ad blockers.

This starts to smell of Microsoft tactics from the bad old days when Gates thought he was god; I can remember many, many instances of some Microsoft update "accidentally" breaking third party Windows applications that challenged Microsoft's attempts to monopolize the whole Windows market.

PS: conspiracy theories are fun :)
 
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