I lost all my faith in google when my gmail was hacked from a Chinese ip and it had 15 digit alphanumeric password. At least they knew it happened I guess.
Btw the website still just blank screens.
Firefox
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Thanks. I didn’t know they updated. I used them many years ago.
“Firefox recently received its biggest update in 13 years, and it’s so impressive, it’s propelled the browser to the top of our list.”
Yeah, they completely redid the browser engine to support massive parallel execution. They even created a new language Rust to have a secure low-level language for this kind of things.
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They are all the same, anyone who tells you otherwise is a tech evangelist.
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Check your ■■■■ OP it worked perfectly over here.
Tech evangelist checking in. Do you have 10min to talk abut our Saviour Richard Stallman?
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These forums also doesnt work like they should.
I’ve never used IE without instantly noticing how slow it runs.
Which seems to have biased me because I haven’t tried this “Microsoft Edge”
EDGE attempted to be “performance first” - plugins / extensions had to be re-written to conform. For months after its first release, that was a chief complaint: couldn’t do much, due to lack of plugins / extensions. (I have no problems with EVE websites, via Edge.)
This reminds me of a conversation I had with HULU today it went like this.
Me- Hulu isn’t working right on Internet Explorer or Torch and my Netflix works on both.
HULU- You need to use either Google Chrome or Firefox to use our application.
Me- Fine fine I will download Firefox if I have too I suppose.
HULU - You should really download Google Chrome.
Me- Wait didn’t you just say it worked on Firefox too? That’s 3 internet browsers you don’t think your product works on all the time Netflix works on everything?
HULU- You should really download Google Chrome.
Sure its not “the same” but sound kind of familiar right now?
Don’t even get me into how piss poor their account creation is.
You are basically expecting every customer to be tech savy and to download a second web browser. While I have heard this advice from many people about how internet explorer just “breaks” eventually, expectation of this to new customers without explaining why is crazy. But then again good luck explaining to them with a blank screen.
Ok you can leave it broken now I stopped giving a ■■■■.
P.S. I guarantee they don’t pay that HULU employee enough for what I said to them.
Don’t really see how it can be hard to understand, that browsers are build on different underlying technologies and that there exist compatibility issues. The reason why stuff like Hulu or Netflix have some requirement to the browsers is very likely that they depend on some underlying api that has not been implemented/ported to Torch or IE. If there are no dependency issues, then it is likely that they just know it works on those browsers and can’t be bothered to check every possible browser/setup out there.
If you don’t want to use Chrome, why don’t you just use the open source Chromium? You are basically using it now anyways, since Torch is built on it. It is still Google, but it is open source, so there are more contributors, as well as being open source means you can download the code yourself, although I don’t expect you to do that, since you’ve mentioned you are not tech savy.
Knowing how to download a second browser is not really something I would classify as “tech savy” these days. I mean, you download an installation file and install it. If you can’t do that, then I wonder how you got eve to work on your machine.
Also… For someone who have lost faith in google (not that I support google, I fully understand wanting to use other products), I don’t understand why you’ve put your faith in Torch of all things. Looks like a bloatware nightmare.
It’s even in the name: “Internet Exploder”
But yeah, this days there are frameworks who even abstract those differences of the browsers away. Companies who don’t threat this as bugs and are telling their customer a browser “is not supported” are just lazy and their software is probably junk.
There are other, actually good reasons not to use a browser from Microsoft or Google, like privacy.
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