Emerald Viewer

This page is a collection of my articles on the GreenLife Emerald Viewer, which later became just the Emerald Viewer.

In the Summer of 2010 a scandal broke that resulted in the Emerald Viewer being banned from Second Life. The Emerald Viewer was the most popular viewer in Second Life. Lots of drama surrounded the scandalous issues. Exactly what was true or false will probably never be known. That the scandal reached into Linden Lab, that residents were betrayed, and narcissistic personalities were revealed is pretty well known.

The Emerald Viewer was replaced by the Emergence and Phoenix Viewers. The Phoenix Viewer is considered the descendant of Emerald. Some members of the Emerald Development Team formed the development team for Phoenix. Some members of the Emerald Development Team were banned from Second Life.

When I moved my blog to this new site I chose to keep these articles as a sort of viewer history.

Emerald Viewer Update

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The new team has the new Emerald web site, forum, and wiki up and running. Visit EmeraldViewer.net. Pay attention to which site you are on. Several knock-off sites use similar domain names. Phillip Rosedale, Linden Lab CEO, has made a post on the SL Blogrum: Malicious Viewers and Our Third-Party Viewer Policy I suppose it is … Read more

Emerald Viewer Interview – Arabella & Jessica

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Paisley Beebe did an interview on Treet.TV (I can’t find a video link – Audio Link page down to the Update! Audio Recording of tonights Paisely Beebe show) with Jessica Lyon and Arabella Steadham, members of the Emerald Dev Team, Sunday night 2010-08-22 about 7:30 PM SLT. Prior to the Emerald interview Keiko Takamura was interviewed … Read more

Emerald Viewer Scandal – Recovery?

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Today there is a new post about the Emerald Scandal on the Modular blog. Fractured Crystal apologizes and resigns from the Emerald Team. This is no small step. Whether it will be enough to save the viewer and restore people’s trust in the development team, time will tell. See: [Emerald] Off with his head Whatever the … Read more

Emerald Viewer Scandal Erupts… Again

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Updates at end of article. On July 13 a post appeared on the Emerald Modular blog. Concerning recent activities.. Sounded like a bit of drama. Not uncommon in connection with the Emerald Viewer. Now another post appears. Recent News, August 14. Both of these seem like they are part of the ongoing drama we see related to … Read more

Emerald Viewer 2439 Update

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Update: 2010-08-11 6:45 PM SLT – A new post appeared today explaining a bit more about the 2439 update and the removal of the 2439 beta release post being removed. Fracturedcrystal posted: Posting to clear some confusion, I unpublished the previous post with beta 2439 because we are working on a new beta which fixes … Read more

Emerald Viewer vs SLURL

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Update 12/24/2016: See the newer version of this information: Second Life: How to FIX SLURL’s. UPDATE: The Emerald Viewer is long gone. But, these steps work with any viewer and web browser. You are changing Windows’ settings. Use your viewers name in place of ‘Emerald’. This SLURL thing has been a problem for me for … Read more

Emerald Viewer 1.4.0.2439 Released – Review

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Update 8/15/2010 – Be sure to read Emerald Viewer Scandal Erupts… Again Update II: 2010-08-11 – More information was posted about 2439. It seems some security issue came up and they are fixing it. Some number of Emerald users are running into problems, inventory loss, av not rez’n, failure to login, viewer crashes… seems to be a small … Read more

Emerald Stats

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New World Notes’ Wagner picked up on the high number of SL residents using the Emerald Viewer. See the article there: Shock Stat: Nearly 1 in 3 Second Life Users Reportedly Use the Emerald Third Party Viewer! I suppose it would be a “kind of” surprise to anyone not using Emerald or the newer SL 2 Viewer. In … Read more