July 29, 2008
The Internet Hates Us 3.0
We just got this message after logging in to Scrabulous on Facebook: "Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like to stay informed about developments in this matter, please click here." To which we say: KHAAAAAAN! We've also just had to switch back to Firefox 2.0. Any page with Ajax was giving Firefox 3 fits--since we usually have at least three Ajax-heavy Google and Gmail pages open at one time, we were constantly getting error messages, having to resend, and having to log back in to accounts. Firefox 3's tendency to bonk on Ajax and its javascripts is kind of a huge oopsie, but we haven't heard anything from Mozilla about how they missed noticing the problem. Maybe they don't use Gmail.
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Interesting. I'm exclusively on Firefox 3 these days, and I live on GMail. I haven't noticed a single problem.
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The official Scrabble app sucks donkey dick, too. This is standard operating procedure nowadays: protect your brand by killing it.
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@bilco: I know! It's really weird--some people have zero issues. All I know for sure is that my problems started with upgrading to 3.0, and that they're present on both my PC and Mac.
@Fnarf: Yeah, I looked at the official app and noticed it was a huge, steaming pile of failure. Hey, thanks for the visit. I know the Slog crew keeps you busy.
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Oh, yeah, I keep forgetting that I'm FAMOUS.
I stop by here too, ya know.
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Are you using Firebug on FF3? I've found that Firebug introduces a number of issues in FF3.
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@henryrose: No, I've heard that too, but I'm no Firebug. It could be something to do with Gmail Manager (and/or logging in to multiple accounts), but if so, it's something that doesn't affect the FF2 distro. As soon as I reverted to FF2, the Ajax issues stopped.