Mozilla vs. Chrome: GetGlue & Flickr

I’ve been using Pale Moon x64 for awhile now. There are problems with how some sites display and work though. I have also run Firefox, latest versions of both browsers, with the same URL’s and find that they have the same problems. I have used Firefox for years and years now.

Two sites are affected by this: Flickr and Getglue

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Flickr

Flickr is affected only on Group pages. Add Photos to Group makes one wish they were bald so they CAN’T pull their hair out.

In IE and Chrome it looks and behaves how it should, nice boxes on the right and your photos on the left to click for insertion into the boxes to submit to the group. In Pale Moon and Firefox that set of empty boxes to fill is one long stream of boxes overlaying the page, going well beyond the borders of it area. Nothing works to get photos into the group this way.

The only way to do so is to go to the individual pictures and look in Actions to Send to Group … or go to Organize & Create and THERE you can batch send to groups.

But not on the group page, which is my preferred method, usually.

I didn’t always participate in groups much and never understood how people can be so active in groups on Flickr like some seem. It’s a double-full time job! So this browser problem isn’t too new, it’s been happening for a little while, I just started trying to get more active again recently (with my Knockout Roses blooming ever so sweet and abundantly!) so I’m frustrated by it and remembering other times in the past where I quit trying at all because of such things.

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Get Glue

Then there’s GetGlue. It’s a service I started noticing on Twitter last year, and didn’t give it single thought past what’s that? Who cares. Then one day it just snagged me … I clicked on a link on a Twitter search that had a getglue item in it … and that’s history.

I love Getglue, the only thing I haven’t done is branched out to follow anyone but my family. As my family goes, they aren’t even active really, only slightly, and that’s my immediate family. I have no idea if anyone I know is on getglue or twitter or … well a couple of people on twitter, but my extended family … no. OK so GetGlue has grown up since then, in my short use of the service. They revamped their site some time ago and since then, flunk … -F for Palemoon and Firefox. I lived with it, just for easements sake, using one browser for everything but Music (I have Google Music in Chrome, it’s the only place I run it on my PC. Firefox was flaky feeling, and Chrome is it’s brother or cousin or something, so, it work better, it does.)

Getglue, search for anything in the top right search box, in Pale Moon and in Firefox you get the same results, poor results, one thing, a black box usually that is a link to something related or maybe what you want but usually not.

Check in field usually works, but I don’t like that way of checking in all the time, sometimes I want to go to the actually page of what I want to check into first. I don’t want a bunch of bookmarks to work from … so searching, is useless in Mozilla on Getglue.

All the LITTLE things are also missing. The things that made me go, huh? When they rolled out the new site. I couldn’t tell if I liked something already or not, and it was the same going to other people’s pages and it was all just a hassle.

I didn’t check-in much anymore. I checked in via my Android phone app for GetGlue occasionally, a much better experience!

So all of this got to me yesterday. I copied a URL into IE and voila! Beautiful full color photo results. The ugly black bubbly square icky FF experience gone. I tried it in Chrome next. Same beautiful results.

There’s another annoying beyond annoying behavior in Mozilla browsers on GetGlue, hover over your profile links, and sometime you catch the edge of the Find Friends link. That pops out a label that won’t go away unless you navigate elsewhere and if it’s a link to go to your Profile or anything on the top of that list, you are SOL, the label won’t let you access the links (this stuff is just petty, who’s fault is it, webpage coding or browswer?)

No such behaviour in Chrome or IE or on my PS Vita in the browser on it.

So using Chrome I know that when I use a tab to go somewhere online besides Google Music, I end up X-ing the whole thing closed at some point, forgetting that “This is MY MUSIC PLAYER and IT WAS PLAYING but not anymore!” because I shut it down. Reflex.

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Good things about Chrome

I found out something about Chrome that I didn’t read about, don’t know if others know much about it but … open a site in a tab. Right Click the tab, choose Pin Tab. Nice!

Close browser. Open Chrome again, not a sub-link, the actual plain Chrome. Pinned Tabs open with the browser, plus a regular tab with you home page on it.

Pinned Tabs are tiny tabs on the left of regular tabs. So now I have Get Glue on the far left and Google Music on the Right of it. If I want to use other sites frequently I’ll add them, but only if it makes sense. I will have to add Flickr.

Things about computer use are nice when they work. So since FF won’t, I will move, some of it, the stuff that WILL work elsewhere, since there is an IE alternative.

Get Glue looks splendid in Chrome. It’s understandable, what they did with it when viewing it like that. The mystery solved, I can like and not like and favorite again. I can check-in however I want, I am not annoyed with pop out text nor searches that are wonky, wrong, ugly, slim, useless.

I don’t HAVE to use my phone to do this easier. It’s easy in Chrome as it should be on the PC. (It shouldn’t be hard and mysterious, should it? No. Fault on either side, coders or Mozilla coders, which side it doesn’t matter, the browser SHOULD be universal. Chrome and IE work on Flickr and GetGlue like mozilla doesn’t, update after update, nothing changes, just me.)