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Published: July 31, 2008
So all of us at PegNews who are on Macs have been having terrible trouble with Firefox 3 freezing and crashing today. We thought perhaps it was our connection to the InterTubes, but even those who fled home are having the same problem. If we were on PC's I'd swear it was a virus.
I can't find anything about this using the Googles. Anyone else?
Published: July 31, 2008
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Scott Doyle Verified
It was crashing like crazy on my winders pc last night, glad to hear I'm not the only one having probs.
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AeroRazavi Anonymous
It depends on the website. I am a Mac user. For some websites, Firefox is the way to go. For others, Safari. And then there is Internet Explorer.
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Jeremy Dunck Staff
AeroRazavi,
This is a new issue; Peg people have internally used Firefox consistently and successfully for quite a while. Today, something changed.
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Chris Curotolo Staff
Yup, I'm on a PC as well. Crashed 6-7 times today. Fun.
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grannygeek Anonymous
I'm a Mac user, too, and today seemed to be deadly day on the interwebs. Remember, though, friends don't let friends use Internet Exploder.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Alex Bentley Staff
Wow, maybe I was the lucky one -- I'm on a PC and haven't had one inkling of trouble. Anyone want to rub my head for good luck?
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Teresa Gubbins Staff
i had $#@! hellacious problems on my desktop PC all day ... but no thanks, alex, i'd rather resort to tin-can-and-string than rub your head for luck, thanks for your offer though, seriously
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Collin Gouldin Verified
I've been on both platforms all day and haven't had an issue.
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Chad Jones Verified
I'll kick your teeth for good luck.
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Jason Rice Verified
There's a little buzz over on applegeeks that it may be flash-related.
Sorry - I swore off apples after the 9600 - I go all the way back to the IIe, but had to have a command line so I defected.
It did hit my suse box today 3-4 times in a row but I assumed it was because I'm behind on updates.
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DC Anonymous
Is it too obvious, but has everyone over there upgraded to Firefox 3.0.1? The upgrade was about 7/18 and without it an bunch of blah blah blah bad stuff with codes and whatever.
No problems with me or my team today to report.
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Erin Rice Verified
I thought maybe it was because I hadn't downloaded 3.0.1, so I got it earlier today. Still having shutdowns.
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Kevin Kunreuther Verified
1.)AeroRazavi, there is no Internet Explorer for Mac OS X, unless you're running Vista or XP on Parallel. 2.)Jason Rice, OS X is based on BSD-UNIX, so you do get the command line back and access to hundreds of powerful programs and commands that doesn't use resource hogging GUI code. 3.)Alternatives to both Safari and Firefox is Opera (now free, light, fast and powerful) and SeaMonkey (all-in-one browser/mail program/chat app suite). I have multiple browsers, for just such emergencies.
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David Goodspeed Verified
network traffic? did you check your bandwidth speed? ours seemed slow at times yesterday and I was using both safari and FF. I use speedtest.net or something like that. Did britney and madonna kiss again? maybe the traffic was overloaded with a viral video of them being adopted by brad and angelina
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Andrew Laska Verified
but its a Mac. It never crashes, or has problems. I swear it.
And those iPhones... All those features weren't available on other phones years earlier. I swear it.
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Jason Rice Verified
Thanks Kevin - yeah the move to BSD almost swayed me back, but I just couldn't swallow the blue pill. Andrew knows what I mean ;o)
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Collin Gouldin Verified
show my 1 phone that has better implemented features than the iPhone.
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Jason Rice Verified
Those were the good old days.
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David Gouldin Staff
You know, you can still live the Luddite fantasy and order a regular home "land line". I bet you can even find one of those old rotary phones on ebay. Just don't think about the fact that your voice is probably being converted to bits and sent over TCP/IP at some point and you're good to go!
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Jason Rice Verified
Hey - you act like denial is a bad thing.
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DC Anonymous
You can have everything you've ever dreamed of in a phone:
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Mike Orren Staff
So we think we've solved the problem. Turns out that the issue was with one of our video ads. We've turned that one off until we figure it out.
Our apologies to any of you who were experiencing problems because of it. Cold comfort, but we were suffering right there with you.
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Jason Rice Verified
David - actually I already have about a half dozen for props. Moreover - we can still be friends. I saw an article on MAKE a couple years back and they have actually productized it.
Yep - all the Luddite anachronism we've all come to expect from me, with all the hipster bee killing* technology we love you for.
*just kidding those guys are crackpots.
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