Silverlight and the Firefox Beta…
I don’t know what possessed me to install Silverlight. I happened upon a Silverlight app and figured what the hell. Sure, I’ll never develop in it, but what’s the harm having it around? (Other than this…but I don’t care about that on my work box.) I’m a UI guy and there’s bound to be something I want to try targeting it. Turns out the harm is that after installing the plugin, as soon as you navigate away from the page with the app it immediately crashes your browser. Fail.
Thank god for Firefox and crash recovery — I had dozens of tabs open. Of course, as soon as the Silverlight page loads: crash. Fail.
I killed my session and started from scratch — no tabs, no Silverlight, just me and the ol’ Google search box: crash. Fail.
It’s uninstalled now and all is right with the world. But wow! I’m sure people would love to say that perhaps Microsoft is being shady with Firefox but no, this is a pretty cut and dry case of Hanlon’s Razor and shitty engineering.