Snow reports

[Diver]

Use Chrome then, it works properly

Or just URLDecode it yourself

Don't want to

[NickFitz]

Latest updates: the****ingweather.com (link will work correctly whatever the naughty words filter may think)

Interestingly, FF manages to decode it correctly as far as UI is concerned (status bar, content of location bar) but screws up on the DNS lookup: it doesn't correctly decode the string before attempting the lookup.

[RichardCranium]

Interestingly, FF manages to decode it correctly as far as UI is concerned (status bar, content of location bar) but screws up on the DNS lookup: it doesn't correctly decode the string before attempting the lookup.

That's what I said. (Sort of).

Use Chrome then, it works properly

Can't. I finally lost my rag completely and uninstalled Chrome yesterday. It is bloatware. It's threading is very poorly designed for concurrency. It eats memory. It is slow (inexcusable but worse than IE and Firefox). It leaks memory. Other than that it is fine (except for the intentional lack of functionality, of course).

[Bunk]

Can't. I finally lost my rag completely and uninstalled Chrome yesterday. It is bloatware. It's threading is very poorly designed for concurrency. It eats memory. It is slow (inexcusable but worse than IE and Firefox). It leaks memory. Other than that it is fine (except for the intentional lack of functionality, of course).

You won't be switching to Chrome OS when it's out then?

[NickFitz]

That's what I said. (Sort of).

Can't. I finally lost my rag completely and uninstalled Chrome yesterday. It is bloatware. It's threading is very poorly designed for concurrency. It eats memory. It is slow (inexcusable but worse than IE and Firefox). It leaks memory. Other than that it is fine (except for the intentional lack of functionality, of course).

I find the complete opposite: FF3.5 is barely usable, while Chrome whizzes along. XP SP 3.

Safari on the iPhone works as well but doesn't show the decoded version in the location bar

[Diver]

That's what I said. (Sort of).

Can't. I finally lost my rag completely and uninstalled Chrome yesterday. It is bloatware. It's threading is very poorly designed for concurrency. It eats memory. It is slow (inexcusable but worse than IE and Firefox). It leaks memory. Other than that it is fine (except for the intentional lack of functionality, of course).

I switched back to FF after 2 hours of Chrome

[RichardCranium]

I find the complete opposite: FF3.5 is barely usable, while Chrome whizzes along. XP SP 3.

XP SP3 and FF 3.5.5

I have 40-odd tabs open in Firefox. In Chrome I would start afresh each time.

I found that after a few hours Chrome would be hammering the disk permanently and using > 500Mb RAM. Repeatedly opening and closing tabs - such as when reading CUK - would make the RAM demand just keep going up.

[thunderlizard]

After a weedy start this morning, it is now megasnowing in London!

(sorry to make a post that simultaneously goes back on topic but takes the thread away from an IT contracting topic)

[cojak]

I find the complete opposite: FF3.5 is barely usable, while Chrome whizzes along. XP SP 3.

Safari on the iPhone works as well but doesn't show the decoded version in the location bar

Strange, I don't have any problem with FF3.5 using XP SP3.

But IE8, now that's dog slow...

[cojak]

After a weedy start this morning, it is now megasnowing in London!

(sorry to make a post that simultaneously goes back on topic but takes the thread away from an IT contracting topic)

It was a hard frost picking up the car from near Heathrow at 7am this morning, and it was trying to snow as we went up the M1.

Not sure if it's going to get as far as Nottingham though...