I rarely use Internet Explorer as I find it extremely slow and lacking of the security, speed and features found in Open Source browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
My default browser is Google Chrome. It lacks the add-ons and features of Firefox but makes up for it in it's lightning speed. Every now and then I use Firefox if a certain website or page element doesn't work right in Chrome, or if I want to use the StumbleUpon! toolbar.
Yesterday while trying to upload a video to YouTube using Chrome (in the blog post above) it failed with an unknown error. I retried many more times before trying again to upload the video with the Firefox browser. I thought it may have be a problem with Google Chrome, since I recently upgraded to Chrome 2.0. However Firefox failed to upload the same video and I spent the rest of the day trying and trying again to upload my video.
At the end of the day in the early hours of the morning I decided to to do something appalling to any Open Source lover or Computer Geek. I opened up Internet Explorer 8 and tried to upload my video with that. The progress bar moved so slowly and I waited for bloody ages (It was only a 49MB file) but to my surprise It actually worked. IE8 done something that Chrome and Firefox couldn't. I don't know why, but it did.
Maybe it was just a fluke that YouTube decided to work all of a sudden and it wasn't a browser problem. I guess I'll never know but you know what to try do next time YouTube's Uploader want to be an ass to you too.
