DeletedUser13521
I have seen many posts from people constantly telling people to switch browsers. Hardly ever giving any reasons for doing so either. The thing I find funniest of all is people scoffing at internet explorer and recommending Firefox or Opera. While trying to get the new in game chat working I have downloaded and tested out Explorer 9, Firefox, Opera and Chrome.
I tend to do a lot of switching between worlds, and I noticed very quickly that both Firefox and Opera do a very poor job of caching flash objects used in the game, this leads to around 10 extra seconds of load time to get all images etc loaded up every time you log into a world(You see the spinning load icon). They do run the game quite nicely after the initial load time however, so if you don't log in and out much they do work quite well.
Internet Explorer and Chrome both do a wonderful job of caching the in game content, with no news popup at start you can often have your town fully up and loaded in under 5 seconds. Explorer tends to have some "dirty" loads sometimes that poorly affect game performance, particularly when you have the news pop up at the start. All in all though I would still recommend Explorer over Opera or Firefox for anyone who tends to do a lot of relogging. I've spent the least amount of time on Chrome so far but it seems to shine, fast load times and no performance issues at all thus far.
I can't comment on Waterfox as I did not try it out yet ... or any other less well known ones. Hope this might help some people out struggling to find their best choice of browser to play the game on
P.S. Chat only worked for me on Firefox .. but that seems to be different for everyone. Hoping for fix soon ...
I tend to do a lot of switching between worlds, and I noticed very quickly that both Firefox and Opera do a very poor job of caching flash objects used in the game, this leads to around 10 extra seconds of load time to get all images etc loaded up every time you log into a world(You see the spinning load icon). They do run the game quite nicely after the initial load time however, so if you don't log in and out much they do work quite well.
Internet Explorer and Chrome both do a wonderful job of caching the in game content, with no news popup at start you can often have your town fully up and loaded in under 5 seconds. Explorer tends to have some "dirty" loads sometimes that poorly affect game performance, particularly when you have the news pop up at the start. All in all though I would still recommend Explorer over Opera or Firefox for anyone who tends to do a lot of relogging. I've spent the least amount of time on Chrome so far but it seems to shine, fast load times and no performance issues at all thus far.
I can't comment on Waterfox as I did not try it out yet ... or any other less well known ones. Hope this might help some people out struggling to find their best choice of browser to play the game on
P.S. Chat only worked for me on Firefox .. but that seems to be different for everyone. Hoping for fix soon ...