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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2012-05-25 09:48:
> 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.
>

I don't know about othes, but the "Moog emulator" played just fine
on my Win7 laptop using FF 12.0.