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Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

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Re: Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

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Post by RiderOfGiraffes »

edw519 wrote: post #6

Old idealist geek alert. 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.…

Co-signed - fellow free hacker.

You're not alone. I realised that Facebook makes it possible for completely non-computery people to share pictures, write notes, have on-line conversations, have a sort-of blog, all in a one-stop shop. When my older niece started to use it I realised that there were half a dozen other facilities that would serve her better, but it's the 80/20 rule. For essentially zero effort she got more than she otherwise could have.

I sigh, but it's the way it is. It's the way it was with AOL, and maybe something will kill it eventually, but it's the way it is now.

I look forward to seeing where it will go, and I hope it's better than anything we can currently imagine.

It probably will.

ADDED IN EDIT:

When I clicked the link I got:

    You are using an incompatible web browser.
    Sorry, we're not able to support your browser.
    Please use one of the following browsers:

      * Mozilla Firefox
      * Safari
      * Microsoft Internet Explorer
I'm using a very old Firefox.

Re: Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

#13

Post by vinsan »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #11
edw519 wrote: post #6

Old idealist geek alert. 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.…

Co-signed - fellow free hacker. You're not alone. I realised that Facebook makes it possible for completely non-computery people to share pictures, write notes, have on-line conversations, have a sort-of blog, all in a one-stop shop. When my older niece started to use it I realised that there were half a dozen other facilities that would serve her better, but it's the 80/20 rule. For essentially zero effort she got m…

I don't think the page checks for the browser version. I am using the latest version of Firefox (3.6.13) and still get the same message.

Re: Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

#14

Post by thornjm »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #11
edw519 wrote: post #6

Old idealist geek alert. 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.…

Co-signed - fellow free hacker. You're not alone. I realised that Facebook makes it possible for completely non-computery people to share pictures, write notes, have on-line conversations, have a sort-of blog, all in a one-stop shop. When my older niece started to use it I realised that there were half a dozen other facilities that would serve her better, but it's the 80/20 rule. For essentially zero effort she got m…

I don't think the page is doing any processing or browser identification. I think it just displays the same static message regardless of how and who visits it.

Re: Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

#15

Post by Charuru »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #11
edw519 wrote: post #6

Old idealist geek alert. 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.…

Co-signed - fellow free hacker. You're not alone. I realised that Facebook makes it possible for completely non-computery people to share pictures, write notes, have on-line conversations, have a sort-of blog, all in a one-stop shop. When my older niece started to use it I realised that there were half a dozen other facilities that would serve her better, but it's the 80/20 rule. For essentially zero effort she got m…

That's because that's the page you're directed to when they detect an incompatible browser. This page is probably static.

Re: Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

#16

Post by MediaBehavior »

vinsan wrote: post #13
RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Co-signed - fellow free hacker. You're not alone. I realised that Facebook makes it possible for completely non-computery people to share pictures, write notes, have on-line conversations, have a sort-of blog, all in a one-stop shop. When my older niece started to use it I realised that there were half a dozen other facilities that would serve her better, but it's the 80/20 rule. For essentially zero effort she got m…

I don't think the page checks for the browser version. I am using the latest version of Firefox (3.6.13) and still get the same message.

Yes. http://www.facebook.com/common/browser.php is a direct link - and displays from Safari 5.x or FF 3.6.13/Mac

EDIT: So, presumably one could access it from IE as well (not something I can test from here).

Re: Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

#17

Post by ja27 »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #11
edw519 wrote: post #6

Old idealist geek alert. 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.…

Co-signed - fellow free hacker. You're not alone. I realised that Facebook makes it possible for completely non-computery people to share pictures, write notes, have on-line conversations, have a sort-of blog, all in a one-stop shop. When my older niece started to use it I realised that there were half a dozen other facilities that would serve her better, but it's the 80/20 rule. For essentially zero effort she got m…

The message when browsing with Chrome is "Sorry, we're not cool enough to support your browser. Please keep it real with one of the following browsers:"

Re: Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

#18

Post by ams6110 »

edw519 wrote: post #6

Old idealist geek alert. 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.…

I've tried Chrome on Mac OS X and found it to be generally faster than Safari but also a bit unstable. Freezing up occasionally etc. It's solid and blazing fast on Windows though.

Re: Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

#19

Post by Hovertruck »

benjaminlotan wrote: post #7
cmorrisrsg wrote: post #5

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…

i cannot imagine chrome being untested by facebook.

Chrome isn't an incompatible browser, though; it's just not on that list of "recommended browsers" so they still wouldn't see this page.

To get to this page, they'd need to fire up Netscape or a version of IE they don't support or something like that.

Re: Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

#20

Post by tvon »

edw519 wrote: post #6

Old idealist geek alert. 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.…

You can access Facebook fine with Chrome, fwiw.
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