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2015-06-13 22:59:15 - Is it time for SOLers to abandon Chrome
I would like some technical advice please. I believe that as of April 2015 Chrome has started the process of removing support for java applications. Given the reliance on java within a lot of our programmes (esp brainaid which I use a lot) should I make a the hugely disruptive move of transferring back to Firefox, or will easily accessible work-arounds continue to exist? Today for example, it was impossible to download the navigation applet from brainaid and I had to resort to Kroppyer's useful alternative link.
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2015-06-29 05:32:41 - Re: Is it time for SOLers to abandon Chrome
Try Comondo Dragon. It's a chromium browser without a lot of the weirdness now going on in Google.
Also Pale Moon, based on Mozilla code.
I use both and less and less Chrome. In a pinch I'll use IE, but not very often.
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2015-06-30 06:03:06 - Re: Is it time for SOLers to abandon Chrome
This is probably why google is backing away from java:
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/06/29/1754205
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2016-05-17 19:58:33 - Re: Is it time for SOLers to abandon Chrome
And now, Google has announced that they will abandon Flash in favor of HTML5, by the end of the year.
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2016-06-13 17:03:34 - Re: Is it time for SOLers to abandon Chrome
About a week ago (6-7 june 2016) the typos in race chat became thinner and partly unclear while using Chrome.
I have cheked with IE, Firefox,and Opera, and they all showed the text as we are used to in a clear and readable manner.
So maybe it IS time to abandon Google Chrome. I'm switching to Firefox from now on. :-)

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