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Best Browser

Is there any consensus on the best browser for Glitch? Does it even matter since it's Flash based? Are there ways to optimize Flash / Browsers for smoother game play? 

Posted 20 months ago by Blivet Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I don't have any problems on Firefox 4.
    Posted 20 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We get a lot of support problems from people using Chrome (proportionally more than the number of our users that use the browser which is around 25%), but others use it without a problem.

    Some people on Macs swear Safari is faster than Firefox.

    Firefox 4 on a Mac has some nasty key press bugs, where the Command key and even Shift and Control keys fire events that are indistinguishable from a left arrow key press.

    I use Firefox 3 on a Mac all day long.

    I bet that on a PC things work best in IE7+.
    Posted 20 months ago by eric Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Other than an occasional Flash crash, FF4 works great on a PC
    Posted 20 months ago by Gabi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • can support FF4, no crashes so far this test.
    Posted 20 months ago by Lellie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Heh, I got soo many crashes on FF4 today, Areas loading slowly, I sent it a lotta reports. Chrome has been fine thistest
    Posted 20 months ago by AetherKatana Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No crashes so far with FF4 (fully updated + flash fully updated) and for me that is first.
    Posted 20 months ago by Lellie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I use Chrome and it works pretty well. Mostly I like it because its almost fullscreen, so its a good gaming experience.
    Posted 20 months ago by Fizio Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I use Chrome (OSX) as my everyday driver, but for Glitch, I use Firefox 3.6 exclusively.  Works so much better than any other browser on the Mac, IMO.
    Posted 20 months ago by blogkitten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Opera 10 and 11 have been the fastest and most stable browser for me, personally.
    Posted 20 months ago by Doc Oblongata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Doc how is Opera these days? I haven't tried it in a while.
    Posted 20 months ago by Fizio Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Opera 11.10 (current stable) or you can test the Opera beta with hardware acceleration (it's what I'm using to play, world of a difference).
    Opera Beta: snapshot.opera.com/labs/web...
    Posted 20 months ago by Johnny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Looking forward to the Mac FF4 bugs getting fixed. Chrome was pretty laggy for me this test.
    Posted 20 months ago by Herp Derp Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Horrible lag with FF4 on mac, no lag with chrome but crashed a few times in a 4 hour period. Screen freezing, complete crash with FF on pc, didn't even try IE.
    Posted 20 months ago by Zev Bellringer Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No problems PC IE8
    Posted 20 months ago by Naiad Subscriber! | Permalink
  • this test I used Chrome and it worked pretty well. I used that instead of FF 4 because FF 4 has been crashing a lot, even on facebook.
    Posted 20 months ago by AzaleaMist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just posted in the other thread. Chrome had Flash crash 4 times for me within 4 hr period as well.
    Posted 20 months ago by Holly Waterfall Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I use Chrome, and Glitch works great.  No problems so far.
    Posted 20 months ago by Jes.Richards Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yeah I have had several chrome-flash crashes during this test.
    Posted 20 months ago by Skylla Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I use Chrome - I only had 1 crash this whole test.  I will say that there was a lot of lag - but from what I was reading, many people were having trouble with lag.
    Posted 20 months ago by fadingfastx3 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Fizio - Opera's come quite a long way.  Does a lot better job of displaying pages correctly than it used to, yet retains much of its fully-customizable nature and being super-secure.  It's not perfect by any means - there's still some stuff that Firefox can display properly that Opera doesn't (for instance, handling linebreaks here in these forum reply boxes), but I find Opera to be far more lightweight overall.

    Since upgrading to 11.10 stable, Glitch has been running quite a bit more smoothly for me in Opera, which is a marked improvement over how Firefox renders Glitch totally unplayable for me due to how badly it hogs system resources when Glitch is running.

    I might try the beta version with hardware acceleration next test.  Anything to take some of the load off my poor CPU.
    Posted 20 months ago by Doc Oblongata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For me - Chrome has been working a doozy :)  Not had any reason to try anything else.  I run it on Win7 (32 bit).
    Posted 20 months ago by Ssieth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • After a fair bit of jumping from browser to browser during this last test, I discovered that IE9 ran the smooth for the longest but only marginally so. It for the most part was the same in that it eventually bogged down as well. 
    Posted 20 months ago by Blivet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I did the same thing, and also found that IE9 on the PC was the best. It seemed to have the fastest street loading performance as well.
    Posted 20 months ago by Shwan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yep Chrome also crashed on me a good four times. Took me nearly 30 minutes to get it back running and into the game. A lot of lag to this test too. :)
    Posted 20 months ago by Misha Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I get alot of error meesages and freezes on FF3.6 on my mac, and chrome gives me many fewer of each
    Posted 20 months ago by olygolly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I use Chrome and it *almost* never lags. Although I did find that sometimes, the area loadings take forever and my cupboard and trophy case don't open.
    Posted 20 months ago by KitkatCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Have to agree with Eric - FF3 is great on Mac. Safari gives me problems with key stroke maneuvering and constant reloading. FF3 has been fast and smooth on my 13yr old mac laptop.
    Posted 20 months ago by Orefye Subscriber! | Permalink
  • PC here.  Running XP.  FF4 == best Glitch user experience out of the three browsers I've tried.  Any flavor of IE is a dog for me, and Chrome is wonderful - but only for a little while - starts bombing out from what I can only deduce are memory leaks while running Flash.  FF3.6 had very near the same bad issues, but Glitch under FF4 is so much better for me right now.
    Posted 20 months ago by Yeoman Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've had very few problems with chrome, but I've not yet had a chance to play for extended periods of time. Though I suppose now that I think back it seems the longer I'm in game the longer areas take to load and the more connection drops I see.
    Posted 20 months ago by splotch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Internet explorer 9 has the best hardware acceleration so it tends to be smoother, and have higher quality graphics. For everything else I use chrome and I swear by it, but for Glitch nothing compares to IE9.
    Posted 20 months ago by Lionshead Subscriber! | Permalink
  • chrome for me was horrific.  super choppy and terrible.
    Posted 20 months ago by pikamookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • FF4 on Mac is playable on my 3 year old laptop. I have been thinking about switching to a different browser for glitch as there are sometimes huge lag spikes that make the game unplayable (Rook quest, ugggghh)
    Posted 20 months ago by geoffreak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm having good luck with Safari 5 on my mac.  FF4 works fine until it occasionally gets stuck on the loading screens between areas.  Then I have to exit and come back into the world.
    Posted 20 months ago by Peppercorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • As a data point: my Macbook Pro was full of dust until a couple weeks ago.  Glitch on Chrome with no other apps open would frequently cause my computer to overheat and crash, while playing it on Safari or Firefox would not.

    Since then, I've cleaned my computer out, and I can play Glitch on all three browsers without a hitch (the only time I've seen a noticeable issue with Chrome was when doing the Rook quest).  I suspect there's something about Flash + Chrome that uses a lot more CPU than Flash + other browsers.  I've also noticed Chrome on the Mac crashing and having issues with other process intensive sites (most ironically, Google Docs).

    One other comment is I think the Mac version of Chrome may have some memory leaks related to Flash.  The longer I play, the more choppy it seems to get.
    Posted 20 months ago by mirth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've had no problems with Chrome on Linux Mint.
    Posted 20 months ago by Fussycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Chrome has been crashy but is my go to, I tried ie 9 and it was very slow, choppy, images wouldn't load.. Have just gone to ff4 and it seemed fastest but I haven't put enough hours in to really test its stability.
    Posted 20 months ago by Catari Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Been using FF 3 on a PC. No problems except for some lag spikes.
    Posted 20 months ago by Piratice Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Google Chrome is better than Firefox 4 on windows 7.
    Posted 20 months ago by Dumindu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Chrome > IE9 on W7. 

    It's all-round a little more stable (no 4-second hangs), but the vanity screen doesn't shift to the left on Chrome. On a whole, it's the difference between normal play, and minor annoyances. Nothing major to me. 
    Posted 20 months ago by Wes O'Matic Subscriber! | Permalink