🙂

If it were something open like an IETF RFC regarding a standard such as x25 communication, then I could see the program writer implementing that functionality to be at fault for screwing it up.

But Silverlight is a closed Microsoft product written specifically for Windows users to ensure lock-in. Hotmail was bought up by Microsoft and changed (after huge problems because they tried [admirably enough] to “eat their own dogfood” and use Windows to serve up the content) to become specifically enhanced for Windows users to ensure lock-in.

Given that Microsoft themselves can’t manage backward compatibility without doing the brute-force method of “include all the old code verbatim”, which is impossible for copyright reasons for anyone else, how is a crashing Hotmail Silverlight actually Chrome’s (or Opera or Firefox or anyone other than Microsoft) fault?

I agree

Care to reread your statement again:

“Chrome keeps crashing my hotmail Silverlight”

Now, who wrote hotmail? Who wrote Silverlight? Who also makes Internet Explorer?

Do I have to draw you a picture?

I’ve checked online for fixes and it isn’t the file size, it isn’t the type of file, it isn’t add-ons. I switched to Chrome because Firefox became highly unstable. If Chrome doesn’t fix its issues, I’ll switch back to Firefox as I hear they’ve fixed many of the problems that made me switch in the first place.

I’ve said before and was told by experts that I was wrong but I’ll say it again, dammit: Firefox does not cater to Linux. The Linux version is crappy and behind in development. That may also be true of Chrome, but Chrome as it works on Linux now is better than firefox on Linux.

Having said that, I do want to mention that Unity breaks in annoying ways. In Gmail, scroll bars no longer work. In Google Map, the default “view” scale is so far off that you can’t read any of the text associated with the page. Of course, Unity has also forced me to make about twice as many mouse gestures than I formerly needed to to and it has entirely broken the desktop paradigm, turning it into something it never was … I can’t imagine how they thought up this monstrosity … so, chrome working with unity (or not) is a non issue because I’ll be removing the latter as soon as I have a ten minute break.

Meanwhile, Get Off My Lawn!!!

.. fixed that for you!

Firefox 11 just came out. They’re really getting aggressive in pumping out new versions.