FireFaux
Firefox has been driving me batty for the last ten days. The problem is that it is crashing. Crashing daily, if not hourly and the period before it finally crashes you can't do much with it. The general symptoms are slow lagging sluggish behaviour then complete unresponsiveness. It seemed to start when Firefox 3.04 came out, but I pushed Quick Time 7.5.5 into my MacBook about the same time. The one thing I can guarantee is that Firefox will not come up after the machine goes into sleep mode. The solutions I've attempted so far are restarting (and restarting and restarting) Firefox. Each time with a force quit is necessary because it doesn't formally crash or ever bring up the crash reporter it just goes into SBBoD mode
Firefox OS X Crash OR freeze OR "spinning beach ball of death" - Google Search. I've also rebooted OS X, frankly though with Firefox down rest of the system behaves. I've tried rebuilding the Firefox prefs. (pull "org.mozilla.firefox.plist" out of the User/Library/Preferences folder and restart Firefox), and I've tried disabling functions. I've turned off Java in Firefox, and the Flash plugin. I've disabled various Firefox add-ons Download helper is off. Google toolbar, Scrapbook, Taboo, Zotero I've been turning off and on to judge effect. It's like OS 8 extensions all over again. If I can't turn the corner on this, I'll have to switch over to Safari, go back to using iCab, or wait for Mac-Chrome to come out. I would seriously miss Zotero though. It's making it hard to be on the interwebs and I'm getting little reading or writing done, wasting time wrestling with this.
I should take care of some minor housecleaning while I'm techno-venting. URLs. Readers of this weblog may have noticed that the formal url has changed to terpconnect.umd.edu/
Atomized junior. This happened back at the start of the fall semester. I ignored it at the time because the old url: www.wam.umd.edu/ maps to it so it makes no real difference, and UM OIT did this briefly once before about a year ago. This time it seems permanent, so I may try to change over how Atomized's links read. At any rate the second part of the url reamains ~pbushmil/atomized_jr/. For that matter there is the identical version of Atomized jr. at radio.weblogs.com/0117291/ which comes with the Userland package
Atomized junior - Radio Weblogs. Also regarding comments: the comments function that comes with Userland is a little touchy, it is a popup window first of all so your browser must allow popups at least for the comments url http://radiocomments2.userland.com/. Or, I suppose, just open the comments function in a new tab or page.
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