Chrome update

Two things, here.

Chroming my way around reddit, I noticed This is the coolest animated gif you will ever see in your life.

So I clicked the link. It took me to a bare page with an — actually, quite good — hand-drawn animation as a .gif file.

After a few seconds, though, I noticed something was up. The animation started to slow down. From the 40-ish fps it kicked off at, the rate dropped to around 15 fps and even lower.

I opened the same page in IE and FF. Animation ran full speed for the duration.

Hmm. Not so good for Chrome.

Secondly — and this has been a pet hate of mine with tabbed browsing all along — the link at the start of this post was obviously copied from reddit. First, I copied the text into my post, then, after highlighting the text I'd just pasted, clicked the 'link' icon at the top of blogger's text form. A dialog appeared, and I clicked to go back to the reddit tab to then grab the URL. Except the dialog had locked the blogger tab and I couldn't switch.

Close the dialog, switch tabs, copy the URL, switch tabs again, click the link icon again, paste the URL.

Details, people...

My problem with Facebook

Surely it wouldn't bee too difficult to send all taggings or anything else that warrants an email notification at once, when a person leaves an application, or signs out?

Maybe one email containing a list of things that have happened?

Instead, I get this:


I'm sure with the many thousands of Facebook developers that there are out there that this kind of problem could be avoided.

Anyone fancy a go? I dare you.

Please?

A reason why IE truly sucks

I have Hotmail (sorry, Windows Live mail) open and am composing a message to a friend, a response to an invite to his for beers and televisual entertainment. The email includes various examples of 'Oooh! I'll put that in.' because a few noteworthy things have happened in the last couple of days.

I need an image for a project at work, so I have another instance of Explorer running with a pageful of Google image results, several of which look quite promising and useful.

Now I need to figure out how to pass GET variables from a Flash movie to a PHP script. So I spawn another instance of IE and Google an appropriate phrase then follow a link to Adobe's website. Which must have dodgy Flash or Javascript on it, because IE promptly hangs.

Ok, I'll just go away and leave it to it. Let it clear its mind enough to — horror of horrors — render a web page.

I go back to Firefox (which I use for casual — read serious — browsing at work) and do digg for a short while. Heading back over to IE, I give up and close Adobe's window and click the End Now in response to IE having soiled its underwear.

I simultaneously, and without warning, lose my email message, my Google images and of course the Adobe page.

Imagine if those three windows had had several tabs each open, as well? And what's with locking the whole of IE, even if only one of the tabs is in the grips of some awful modal dialogue?

Internet Explorer SEVEN.

How many times does Microsoft insist on overlooking these awful problems with one of the worst web browsers on the market?