White Screen of Death: Admins up in arms after experimental Google emission borks Chrome

Found on The Register on Saturday, 16 November 2019
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An experimental feature silently rolled out to the stable Chrome release on Tuesday caused chaos for IT admins this week after users complained of facing white, featureless tabs on Google's massively popular browser.

Irate IT admins posting on the Chromium dev blog pointed out the problem didn't only affect Citrix, though with its wide adoption it was the highest-profile casualty.

As one IT pro put it not one hour ago: "I don't think we should stop making noise about this. The issue now is that Google has gotten so big that they aren't concerned at all about what they have done because they know we will keep using their software."

Keep his in mind when Google decides to make DoH mandatory. They don't really care what their sheep users are saying or how changes would affect them. Otherwise they would not enable an experimental feature in a stable release without even changing the version number.