- Frequent crashes when acquiring video camera [2]
- Recorded sound being choppy and broken (still not fixed for Red5) [3]
- Audio delays and broken echo cancellation in Speex [4]
- Microphone sound levels not reported, breaking apps like ours which check if a microphone worked properly. (resolved together with [3])
- Sound stopping to record after a few minutes [5]
- Inability to give camera access on retina displays [6]
- Rushed fix for a click-jacking attack introduces horrible UX that gets into an unrecoverable state by default [7]
All in all I can personally confirm that Chrome has not been good for people doing video recording on the web.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150596 [2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140831 [3] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136624 [4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=144554 [4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152314 [4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140724 [5] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=168859 [6] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=177621 [7] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=155437
Nobody gives two glances about Safari, mate.
And please, for the love of all that is holy, also make sure they understand what it might mean for the stability of features such as video recording.
Over the past few years Chrome has repeatedly shipped PepperFlash versions with various degrees of brokenness for video recording; wreaking havoc for webcam based services across the web.
Ironically enough these issues are extra hard to address, because when you tell Chrome users to 'try another browser' they all go "Nahh. I'm already on the best one."