game errors

I reported the "clearing history issue" to Mozilla.  Tyler Downer was patronising, Jo Hermans was a little more lucid:

"Clearing history is clearing the URL's that you have visited in the past. It's
not clearing *your* history (as a way to erase all your private information),
if you get the semantics. You can choose (and save) what part of the data you
want to erase. If you want to erase all information, tick all the boxes."

Edited by Illyriad Admin - 14 Apr 2010 at 01:26

Hopefully load times should be a bit snappier now?

Heyya Strives,

If you're using Firefox... we did track down a very weird bug over the weekend regarding their upgrade to Firefox 3.6.3 towards the end of last week.

If you have used the built-in browser Zoom function (Ctrl+Mousewheel or Ctrl + + or Ctrl + -) IN THE PAST, even accidentally, and have upgraded to 3.6.3 then Firefox OCCASIONALLY has a massive problem rendering all the javascript popups.

The problem does not go away until you press Ctrl + 0 (or View / Zoom / Reset) and then suddenly everything works again, immediately.  Please note that clearing your cache and deleting *all* cached files and any personal saved data makes no difference to this issue, unless you check the "Site Preferences" button on the "Clear Recent History" as well - a button that is unchecked by default! 

You also then appear to be able to use the built-in browser zoom function thereafter, without any problems.

It's a very weird bug, and as you can imagine took many hours to track it down, before we (largely accidentally) stumbled upon the solution.

Please give this a go if you're a Firefox user, and let us know whether it worked for you!

Best wishes,

GM Stormcrow



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PS. Side note to this one: 

Up until this weekend I loved Firefox. 

I now hate it with a passion, and not simply because of this bug.

Fundamentally, a "Clear Recent History" option should actually clear your recent history. 

If it's keeping a list of "Site Preferences" and Zoom Levels against a DOMAIN LIST unchecked by default, then what's the point of checking the "Clear Browsing History" option by default? 

For the avoidance of doubt, when you:

• go into "Tools"
• select "Clear Recent History"
• ensure the "Browsing & Download History" button is checked, and
• press the "Clear Now" button...

in Firefox you are NOT actually clearing your entire browsing history, as it is being stored at a domain level elsewhere (in the site preferences list) and saved.

For me this is such a *massive* flaw in Firefox - breaking its implicit bargain with every user that an option to 'clear the list of sites I have visited and my browsing history' does not do so - that I have now switched to another browser altogether and won't touch Firefox again.


Edited by GM Stormcrow - 12 Apr 2010 at 09:29

If your using Safari the pages tends to move down a few lines as it finishes loading

The problems are probably all related to slow page loads.  For example, it can take 3-8 seconds for the page's "onLoad" event to trigger because that only happens when the page is fully loaded (and rendered), and before then, several functions like the popup menus aren't yet hooked into the page.  There are several such cases of buggy interface behavior before the page is fully loaded and initialized.