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Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?
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Alternately, Chrome might be legitimately untested but functionally equivalent enough to Safari that everything works. In that scenario leaving Chrome off the list of supported browsers is just a CYA in case something doesn't work.
I realize that 192% of everyone who ever lived uses Facebook for every possible task 27 hours per day, but every time I read "Facebook", I can't help thinking about AOL in the late 90's..."This is not the way is was meant to be."
We got away from the pseudo-monopolistic controls of AT&T, IBM, the US government, and finally AOL to enjoy the golden days of the world wide web from 2000 to 2005. Oh how glorious it almost was. Then, like self-mutilating OCD addicts on Xanex, we couldn't stand the freedom and quickly jumped to the next most promising walled garden.
FWIW, I used Chrome for the first time yesterday and I love it! No going back to ie or Firefox for me. Can't access Facebook? No problem for me; all I ever wanted was a simple browser and access to the open world.
No, yahoo, I won't use my Facebook id to get my email. No, , I don't use Facebook. And no Facebook, Twitter, itunes, and the rest of you guys who want to wall us off, I will not use you. (And don't think I'm not starting to worry about you too, Google.)
I know, I know, I still use my Giant Eagle/GetGo frequent buyer card, so everyone on the internets probably knows that I bought aspirin last night, but I'm still clinging to my last little bit of freedom.
Respectfully yours,
The last free hacker standing, clinging tightly to my mouse and keyboard
It's probably not a slight against Chrome. These sorts of edge-case error pages are typically some of the least up-to-date for a website. You need to use a browser they don't test with to see it, so naturally they won't see the page during testing. Alternately, Chrome might be legitimately untested but functionally equivalent enough to Safari that everything works. In that scenario leaving Chrome off the list of supp…
""Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996