In a rare occurance, we have a new application from Google that actually seems a little bit too much in beta, at least for me.

I installed it yesterday, as I'm sure many people did. At first, it seemed to be working OK. That said, the numbers seem a little inflated. I haven't measured with and without the accelerator to see if there really is any difference, but I haven't really felt one yet.

However, I have felt the bugs. I won't attempt to accelerate SSL pages. However, it will attempt to accelerate password protected pages that aren't on SSL. Unfortunately, it doesn't work when this is attempted. It just immediately gives an unauthorized page. If I then tell it to not accelerate "this" page I get the password asked for at every link. I have to turn off the accelerator completely. And I did try to turn it off for the domain in question, but that didn't help either. It seems it futzes with the authentication somehow. This happened in both IE and Firefox.

The next problem may just be a Firefox issue with proxies because it did not occur under IE. The address bar no longer works properly. It won't update with the correct URL and I can't enter new URLs into it. To use Firefox, I have enter the URLs in the Google Deskbar (ironically enough) to get them to open up.

Due to both of these problems, I'm going to be forced to completely remove the Google Web Acceerator from my system. Maybe in a rev or two it'll be all fixed up.

For my own record, I'm using:

googlewebaccclient.exe: version 0.2.52.65-pintail.a
googlewebaccwarden.exe: version 0.1.52.57-dogcatcher.a
Firefox extension: version 2005050312

Google Blog: Time waits for no one

Posted by Shane on May 6, 2005 11:50 AM | Permalink