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Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

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Post by 6510 »

alcoholic_byte wrote: post #308

Here is a nafarious interpretation of events: (I assume we all remember how Alphabet, in order to drive Chrome adoption, sabotaged youtube when a Firefox-browser was detected?) Only breaking for new FF-versions will give the untechnical user the impression that FF broke through an upgrade. So I call this another not so feeble, but very evil(yes I think we expect nothing less of them right now), attempt of Google go t…

here is a fun anecdotal: google wouldn't load for me on ff windos, I tried a bunch of stuff over a few days then in a lapse of sanity or a stroke of genius I decided to switch the default search engine [back] from bing to google, I press reload and the html page with the single form field worked again! It continued to work after switching to bing again.

I feel I should note I have this in a user script:

    document.getElementsByClassName('b_logoArea')[0].href = "https://google.com/search?"+document.URL.match(/q\=[^&]*/);
It makes it so that clicking the bing logo sends the query to google, perhaps it doesn't like getting queried directly without being the default search engine?

Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

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Post by stonogo »

forward1 wrote: post #284
stonogo wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have no evidence to support this assertion. I know this because there is no objective "browser quality" standard. It is as least as likely that Google aggressively advertising it on every single page load of every single web presence gained traction for chrome.

Actually, I do: the fact most people use Chrome and not Firefox.

That's a popularity metric, not a quality metric. Conflating the two is disingenuous at best.

Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

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Post by forward1 »

alcoholic_byte wrote: post #309
forward1 wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you put "accidentally" in quotes to support your baseless accusation? Because you have provided no evidence of any wrongdoing, only biased speculation.

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck......

Thanks for confirming your accusations are baseless and not rooted in any factual evidence.

Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

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Post by forward1 »

stonogo wrote: post #312
forward1 wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, I do: the fact most people use Chrome and not Firefox.

That's a popularity metric, not a quality metric. Conflating the two is disingenuous at best.

Turns out quality software is also popular. Imagine that!

Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

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Post by lovelyviking »

QuinnyPig wrote: post #242
dannysullivan wrote: post #216

I work for Google Search. Apologies for this! It’s been fixed now and posted to our search status dashboard https://status.search.google.com/incidents/hySMmncEDZ7Xpaf9i...

Fortunately, the issue was reported in the proper / only place to get support from Google: the front page of Hacker News.

And what approach would be effective to get any buttons work on login page of ChatGPT?

In IOS 14 ‘ login’ button simply does nothing regardless of the browser.

It’s been reported and yet last time I’ve checked it doesn’t work. It’s more than two months already and as it seems simply no body give a sh….

Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

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Post by stonogo »

forward1 wrote: post #315
stonogo wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a popularity metric, not a quality metric. Conflating the two is disingenuous at best.

Turns out quality software is also popular. Imagine that!

Plenty of quality software is unpopular, and plenty of popular software is shit. I'm confident you know this. What is driving this series of pointless nonsense posts?

Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

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Post by fragmede »

mrguyorama wrote: post #253
oh_sigh wrote: post #120

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It's not the responsibility of the browser vendors. But they have an interest in un-breaking the experience for their users. In a sense, Google is too big to fail, so users want it to work any way possible. It happens all the time, you probably just don't realize it. There is special code in Windows for supporting/un-breaking popular applications, same with Android and iOS.

It's literally older than Google Here's Raymond Chen sharing some of the worst examples from the 90s https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplec...

That’s quite the read! I didn’t appreciate how much effort went into making the Win95 compatibility layer.

Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

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Post by forward1 »

stonogo wrote: post #317
forward1 wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Turns out quality software is also popular. Imagine that!

Plenty of quality software is unpopular, and plenty of popular software is shit. I'm confident you know this. What is driving this series of pointless nonsense posts?

I do. I also happen to know people use Chrome because it's quality.

Re: www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

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Post by 1oooqooq »

acdha wrote: post #262
1oooqooq wrote: post #260

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You proved my (overly condescending) point. You either support older TLS or you don't. Do not try to fine tune it to one known audience. You just locked everyone that is not in the sample you just whitelisted(!) out of your service. But you don't know about them, so no harm? If you think one use case for tls1.1 is OK for one use case, just accept you support it. Same for every thing else. Every time you use UA sniff,…

That not proving anything other than that you missed the point that the real world doesn’t always have simple solutions. Sometimes you have to do things which are a bit messy as part of a phased transition and it’s important to know what tools you have available to do so.

How did you find out about the blind users? did your excellent testing work find it? No. You screwed up and someone complained.

Now extrapolate your arrogant incopetence to your entire user base. How many people do you think you are screwing over that didn't bother to complain and instead just moved away?

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