Regarding Chrome
Despite accessing this URL over port 4000 umpteen times, and over port 9091 nearly never, Chrome insists on autocompleting to the former. It’s little things like this that just could be better. Despite being a roughly 1.649 trillion dollar company, it’s something they missed or don’t have the will to fix. And it’s something Apple wouldn’t have ignored during Jobs’ reign. Perhaps this example succinctly emblemizes a primary grievance against my former employer; a sort of thing I observed far more often than I would have liked. Though it may be defended by a kind of financial rationality, these things add up; and at scale, they just ain’t a good look. Perhaps it’s time for Firefox anyways.
All that said, bug filed. Given that I once discovered a bug that caused ChromeOS to invoke applications as the root user and that it took a year to fix, I won’t hold my breath. Then again, maybe I’ll just fix it for them some time; it is, after all, laudable that Chrome’s basis is open-source if not “free.”.
Then again, hey, are you listening Google? I would be thrilled, given that “that around 70% of serious bugs are memory safety problems”, if more folks were dedicated to them moving onto Rust.