[Info-vax] OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <00AC1D7C.120A38EE at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 

> Fuck Chrome and fuck Google too.  On Wednesday, the Google doodle was a
> pseudo-Mini-Moog synthesizer to honor the birthday of Robert Moog.  It
> was also used to push Chrome -- especially, after reports had it besting
> M$IE -- and it did so by crippling the doodle on a number of browsers.
> 
> I'm glad to see M$IE go but if Google is going to play the same games as
> the evil Redmond empire then, it's only a bittersweet victory.
> 
> I will see Michelle Moog (Bob's daughter) in a couple of weeks and I will
> ask her to voice a complaint (hers will carry more clout) about using her
> father's legacy to promote this sort of sleezy marketing push by Google.

A nice idea with the, errm, Goog synthesizer, but if other browsers were 
intentionally crippled, then Google is really stooping down to the level 
of Microsoft.