Google Trying to Bury Microsoft?
BySo I just went into panic mode for a bit there… My blog wouldn’t load on Internet Explorer (IE)! Yep, the very same blog I’ve been slaving away for many hours just poops out (yes, that’s a technical term) IE.
So I disabled all my plugins thinking maybe the culprit is one of the many I’ve installed. Nope.
No cigar – IE still crashes.
So I ran my blot through the HTML validator and it told me it was something wrong with my page… Great. Long story short, after suspecting it may have been one of my videos and RSS, I disabled Google Friend Connect (GFC) and voila! IE loads my blog just fine.
I re-enabled all my plugins and everything is still dandy.
And just for sanity check… I looked up some of my friend’s blogs that has GFC installed and confirmed that their blogs crash too. Given the fact that approximately 50% of surfers online still use IE, I’ve decided to disable Google Friend Connect. GFC is fixed»
It just seems so unlike them, those geniuses working at Google, to make a product that blatantly crashes the very tool that half of the online users use.
UNLESS, they are trying to bury Microsoft while promoting their own browser, Chrome… Hmm, I wonder how long it’ll be before GFC crashes FireFox too. 
In all seriousness, I hope this is just a bug and in that case, we should all blog about it and make them aware of the situation.Google Knows?»
With that said, given the fact ~that 40~50% of surfers (to the websites I run analytics on) use IE, I am disabling GFC until the bug is fixed – this is for all you IE users.
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The widget causes a hiccup in IE, and then following widgets do not load properly. If you place the Freind Connect widget VERY LAST inside the footer … everything works fine.
This has confussed MANY PEOPLE!!!! It appears that something other than Google Friend Connect is the problem when you first try and diagnose. Funny thing is, bloggers running Firefox are almost angry when you tell them IE is crashing. I agree about the continued use of IE – if half the people coming to a page are being crashed, that cannot be a good thing.
Yep, makes you wonder what blogger is up to – esp. when they made the widget to work on many different formats. Sneaky bastards! Ha haaaaaaaaaa !!!
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