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Is this your conjecture or based on actual statements?
There was a quote with links yesterday in the lj releases thread. It's been verified that igrick is head of LJ Russia. It's also been reported that he's been rude and dismissive of western users and their issues.
There have been some fixes implemented, and some ongoing attempts to set things to an approximation of how they worked before, but it's new coding, and not restoration, and nobody knows how far those concessions will go.
I spent some time trying to find the links I followed yesterday, but the comments count on the "release 88" post reached more than 1900 in 30-odd hours, at least three-fourths of it protesting the changes, and I just can't wade through it all for a cite. Sorry!
I gave up Firefox for Chrome a while back because Chrome was so much faster.
Ironically, the one thing it CAN'T seem to load is Google services - I get randomly logged out of Gmail all the time, the omnibar only works because I changed the default search to Bing, and Maps takes so long to load I may as well just start driving and ask for directions along the way.
Anyone know of a possible reason for this and a way to make it better?
yes. upgrade to Chrome beta version. It is more stable.
I'm at 16.0.912.63
Hm, that's the same version I have.
Then I would purge all the cookies and our history.
Yeah, searching from the menu bar is one of the things I love about chrome
Can't you search from the menu bar in all browsers? Don't make me bust out about long time Opera shit now...
Ok, so im in the Denver airport for the next three hours. They have free wifi. I can get to it from my phone, but my computer will connect to te wifi but none of the browsers will redirect to the acceptance page. How do I fix this?
Check your proxy settings? That is usually my issue. If I had known you were out here, I'd have driven out to the airport to have a drink with ya.
Huh. Apparently what I had to do was tell my system preferences I needed help, have IT connect to the wifi (...even though I'd done that already) and voila, it redirected just fine.
Of course, now I'm a little worried I somehow turned off something important while hunting around for things that would work, but it's much more pleasant to be typing on my laptop than my phone.
