On November 14, the WebContent Occlusion experiment was "rolled back," and a new Chrome configuration file pushed out to users. Once the reports started flooding into the support forums, Google started digging into the issue. Has Google fixed the Chrome white screen problem? Google, it seemed, had been testing an "experimental feature" which was then pushed out to the stable release. So when the reason that enterprises around the world were experiencing a "White Screen of Death" that locked up the browser and impacted productivity was confirmed on November 14, it came as something of a shock. These come with a warning: "Canary can be unstable." Unsurprisingly, nobody using the Google Chrome browser in a "live" business setting, where stability isn't just a nice have but essential, would use such an unstable version of the browser.
This did not mean the end of new feature experimentation, though, and developers have been able to test these by way of the nightly Chrome Canary builds. Google announced the closure of Google Labs on July 20, 2011. It was here where new features could be toggled on for testing, with the user acknowledging that it was at their own risk. Many users of Google products such as Gmail and Calendar will remember the Google Labs ideas incubator. Some Google Chrome users have been experiencing a 'White Screen of Death' Getty Images
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