Google's problem is they decide which revocations are worth passing on to the browser. That's at least as broken by design.....
Believe me I am aware of the limits of soft-fail, but the answer cannot be even in the short-run to let a browser vendor tell us which revocations are worth knowing about.
> but the answer cannot be even in the short-run to let a browser vendor tell us which revocations are worth knowing about.
So you trust the browser vendor to ship you executable native code but you don't trust the browser vendor to apply reasonably decent criteria for the top x% most-needed cert revocations on the Internet?
Believe me I am aware of the limits of soft-fail, but the answer cannot be even in the short-run to let a browser vendor tell us which revocations are worth knowing about.