Monday, February 7, 2011

New Development Channel Update Brings Some Misery

I mentioned in a previous post that there was a new update available on the developer channel. Problem is, there's problems there.
This version of the OS brings problems with media content.  MP3's no longer play.  Grooveshark music displays a "Cannot play" message for all music.  Some video content will not play.  (I found I can still view hulu content.)
All of the flags in the about:flags page have been reset to the defaults, so you have to go in and change things back to whatever you had them set to previously.  So, for instance, if you had enabled advanced file system support so that you can read your usb and sd drives, you will need to reenable it.
You can now drag and drop the app icons around in the new window views to customize that view.  And the sync settings now come up in their own dialog from the settings window.
I've also noticed that I'm getting crashes more frequently.  The good news is that whereas these crashes used to take down all of my tabs, it is now confined to the tab that causes the exception.
So, while there are a couple of pluses in this last update, the loss of the ability to play different media files is a big buzz-kill.  Hopefully, Google follows this release up pretty quickly with something that works a little better!


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