Geiodo

It’s been quite a long time since I last blogged about anything… At all. Not that anyone really reads this, but, it’s nice to pretend.

Anyways, why not blog about my browser issues?

As of late, safari, the only truly decent browser EVER, has been giving my computer quite the hard time.

It started with this simple bug: When running things in browser, at the same time as other applications, it would cause “Freezes”. Freezes are mini computer freezes, which last for UP TO a second, and then allow the computer to resume work. However, they tend to come in packs..

I eventually got used to the mini freezes, however, they developed… They mutated… Into a worse problem… Of doom… And lots of dotdotdots… Scary…

If too many of these freezes occurred, a complete computer crash would be caused. (“You need to power down your computer”).

Surprisingly enough (to you), I do not mind these crashes because I loose my work – I save every second, and in fact, I need to do so in order for my scripts to run. The REAL issue, is total computer failure. If too many computer crashes occur, computer failure comes; The kind of failure that requires complete hard drive wipe/replacement, and TRULY looses all of your work.

After a while, a predecessor to the current mutation occurred… The YouTube crash. While playing a video on youtube, the system would start having those mini freezes. However, they were not ordinary mini freezes… If I started getting those freezes during youtube, I would have 1-3 seconds to close the youtube window, which takes longer due to the fact that the computer is freezing through all of it. If I did not close the window within three seconds… Complete computer crash.

Things got so bad, that I started flinching at anything that even resembled the animation of a computer failure! (When the computer fails, it is sort of like a vertical motion transition screen).

After that, things truly got bad. It didn’t matter WHAT I was doing, youtube, outside applications… Safari would cause crashes. Random crashes.

And the final mutation was beyond a crash. Instead of seeing “You need to power down your computer”, the computer just turned off, making its little death pistol “pew”.

If you are wondering how I know this is safari, my computer leaves convenient logs of what happened before the crash. And each and every one of those logs said the same thing: “SAFARI DID IT!!!”

At that point, I made sure I had all the browsers possible, and then I ceased all use of Safari.

The rundown:

Opera is pretty good, but it has major issues with copy/paste, text boxes, and Unity web player controls – Which makes it a non-optimum tool for testing my games.

Chrome does great with regular internet surfing, copy/paste, and text boxes, but it does not have very good bookmarks, leaving Opera as my main research browser. Chrome too has major issues with the Unity web player.

Firefox does quite well with the Unity Web player, although I had to do some modifications to my code. However it sucks at connections – various chats that I use to communicate with testers will not work, making chrome dominant for non-videogame work.

Internet Explorer just plain sucks, it is the dominant browser for sending insults to/wanting to delete. No offense to you windows users, but jeez! You could do better.

At this point, I am typing to you from chrome, with firefox open as well. Opera stays closed most of the time, unless I need quick access to my research resources.

So, the irony here? Apple’s own application is the downfall of Apple’s own computer.

-George (Yes, I have decided to use my real name.)

P.S. Don’t take this post negatively. Just laugh at it, and pray that I don’t loose all my stuff.