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Re: dedicated browser

• turfsand 1,773 Posts

  Sun, Sep 28 2014 6:45 AM

  I have google chrome set to go directly to the game client and use chrome for game play only. profile pages, wgt forums, cc homepage etc... are all accessed from a completely different browser. is this the recommended way to get the best gameplay from WGT? and if it is could someone please explain the reasoning behind this?

  thank you in advance,

      turfsand

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Sun, Sep 28 2014 6:51 AM

  . Personally I use Maxthon 3 for the game and IE for the other stuff. It works well.

• turfsand 1,773 Posts

  Sun, Sep 28 2014 9:37 AM

  may I ask why the game plays better on its own browser?

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Sun, Sep 28 2014 10:32 AM

  some browsers are more compatible with wgt than others, having a dedicated browser doesn't make the game play any better, keeping your temp files/memory/caches cleaned out does...

  more convenient but won't play better...

  When you use a program like ccleaner to get rid of junk files you will see that browser like "Chrome" and "IE" produce and store over 10x's the temp files that browsers like FF, Opera, etc. do...it is beyond me why anyone ever uses IE or Chrome for anything.

  I use FF for everything and I have a shortcut on my desktop that takes me straight to the tournament page here, best of both worlds...lol

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Sun, Sep 28 2014 11:37 AM

  Optimizing Your WGT Experience

   Supported Web Browsers

  We currently support the following browsers:

  Internet Explorer version 9 and higher - Get the latest version here 
  Firefox version 3 and higher - Get the latest version here Preferred
  Chrome - Get the latest version here  make sure you have pepperflash turned off.

  I use Chrome and I have CCleaner configured to clear Chrome each time I close it.

  So before I play I close Chrome and when it re-opens I only open the WGT game client page.

  Another important step is to clear the Flash Player Website Privacy Settings panel. I have CCleaner set up to clear that at the same time I close Chrome.

• Safdar1 454 Posts

  Sun, Sep 28 2014 12:03 PM

  Recently I have started to use only firefox for wgt, I wanted one just for wgt. Chrome is my goto browser fro pretty much everything so I couldn not use that -  and safari did not work too well with the meter. Firefox works ok with the meter. Like you Dav, I use this browser only for the game now and just browsing the WGT site also. I don't know if that helps performance, but it makes me feel a bit better knowing I am bringing less variables to my WGT browser performance.

• turfsand 1,773 Posts

  Sun, Sep 28 2014 4:25 PM

  thank you all for your help

      turfsand