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Viewer Stability 2013-23

2013/06/05 by Nalates Urriah

The Third Party Viewers List is ordered by crash rates with the highest crash rate last. It is interesting to look at this list and see which viewers are better or worse from previous weeks.

Yesterday the list was updated. Surprisingly Firestorm lost its first place position. That needs some explaining, because I think Firestorm is the most stable viewer going.

First off Radegast holds first place in the list. BUT it is a non-graphical viewer. It is a text only viewer. So, it lacks most of the code that has problems, the 3D rendering pipeline. So, I don’t count it.

Yesterday the SL Beta Viewer 3.6.0 moved ahead of Firestorm 4.4.0. Well yay! Linden Lab. Congratulations.

Firestorm Post: 4.4.1 Coming

2013/05/29 by Nalates Urriah

To go along with the Linden blog post about Server Side Appearance (baking) Jessica has published an article on where the FS Team is with the next release of Firestorm. See: Server Side Baking on the Way! Jessica is trying to get 145,000 Firestorm and Phoenix users to upgrade their viewers. These are just the … Read more

Firestorm Pushes Back

2013/05/21 by Nalates Urriah

I tend to leave drama out of my coverage, unless I feel I can contribute something to people’s understanding of it and hopefully reduce the drama. I think it worth your time to read Jessica Lyon’s recent post on the Firestorm blog. See: A message from Jessica Lyon. Obviously they are getting enough abuse Jessica … Read more

Second Life Mesh Rendering Problems

2013/05/17 by Nalates Urriah

Each week the blog Lette’s Trivia And Trivial Stuff publishes the week’s top support issues with the Firestorm viewer. Another issue is out. But, some issues are not limited to the Firestorm Viewer. One of those is mesh objects failing to render. Lette has written up an excellent section on the problem. She focuses on: … Read more

Firestorm Problems 2013-18

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

Lette has a new page up with solutions for the top three problems Firestorm Support is seeing: Frequently Asked Firestorm Support Questions: May 1.

Hippo Hollow - Phoenix Area — Hippo Hollow – Phoenix Area

The three top problems are:

Missing Inventory Items
Textures Not Rezzing
Black Rectangles in Pictures

Lette has provided the fixes the Firestorm Team has.

Firestorm Viewer Fixes

2013/04/26 by Nalates Urriah

The Firestorm team, in spite of running three pass QA, let some problems get through. This just shows how hard it is to catch problems in software. Whatever, the blog now has an article up on the top 3 complaints and their fixes. Top 3 Complaints & Resolutions for 4.4.0 Release Firestorm Viewer. The article … Read more