To my dismay, starting yesterday, I could not get to g-mail or any of my google powered blogs (this is the only public one, so you're not missing anything). I found that sometimes, if I restarted my computer I could get to one of the private blogs. Since firefox was starting to act sluggish on top of not opening blogger accounts and g-mail, I tried updating to the latest version. That didn't work.
I knew it wasn't some massive google failure since google.com still worked, I could still visit this blog (but not signed in) and other people who were authors on the private blogs could get to those. Then, I realized that google now has a shiny new browser- Chrome. I download it and LO AND BEHOLD, suddenly all of my google doodads that require passwords work! And Firefox is fine again!
What a load of crap.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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Interesting...I wonder if anyone else is having that problem.
Firefox is still working fine for me on both Mac and PC platforms for all my Googlin (which includes Gmail, Reader, Docs, and Calendar). None of my friends at Google have let me in on any pending conspiracy to force folks over to Chrome, so I suspect it was a compatibility hiccup. Also, Firefox just switched over from 3.1 to 3.5...lots of reasons random badness could happen.
Even so, I still don't trust google. They're far too powerful for my liking.
You have had a large number of problems with the Goog.
Maybe you should export your data to another blogging service or something?
I've thought about it.
When the Phenomenauts thing goes up it'll be wordpress.
Fight the google power! Try scroogle, it allows google searches but blocks the google tracking cookies, etc.
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
Some_Guy_In_Canada
Similar(ish) thing happened to me- turned out to be malware targeting anything google-related. An anti-spyware doohickey from the Microsoft site fixed it.
Personally I draw a different conclusion from your story: namely that Firefox is easy to exploit and Chrome is not.
But then I've been using Chrome for a while now and going back to Firefox feels like a whole pile of sloooooow.
I'm more likely to immediately distrust the enormous corporation that takes measures to make sure that their employees spend as much time at work as possible (nurseries, places to take a siesta, etc)
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