MacBook running OS X version 10.6.2 crashes

[rose...@groupee.com]

First, I LOVE LOVE LOVE list.it. Thanks for coming up with this
ingenious add-on.

I had to disable it this week, though, because it seemed to be the
cause of my laptop hanging, then crashing out completely. Since I
disabled it, I haven't crashed at all. I can't trace it to a specific
activity, but the crashes always appeared to be browser-related; first
my web downloads would hang (with beachball of death), then total
frozenness. I would have to hard reboot in order to clear it.

I'm not really a super-geek, but I'd be happy to answer any other
diagnostic questions that might help you trace the problem.

I hope to be able to re-enable list.it soon :)

[Jessica]

I've had this problem too, actually. Had to uninstall list.it on
Leopard. I'll get a beachball over Firefox, then over Finder's
menubar. Only way to get out is to do a hard restart (can't use
activity monitor or apple+option+esc, both freeze). Would love to find
a solution, since I used list.it a lot before I upgraded.

Jessica

On Feb 19, 4:46 pm, "rosem...@socialstrata.com" <rosem...@groupee.com>
wrote:

[electronic Max]

Hi Rosemary and Jessica,

Thanks for your feedback. I think I know exactly what you are both
talking about.

I'm working with Apple engineers to address the problem. It seems to
have to do entirely with the Wireless (Airport) card and I might have
an answer for you in the next couple days.

Yours,
Max Van Kleek
List-it Team lead
MIT CSAIL

[electronic Max]

Hi Rosemary, Jessica and others --

I've filed a bug with Mozilla and posted a new version of List-It that
completely and entirely turns off the code we wrote to access the Wi-
Fi card (which wasn't really being used yet anyway) to see if that was
causing the instability.

Preliminary testing suggests that the crashing has gone away (for me
at least). I was wondering if any others running OS X 10.6.x could
verify that their Firefox gets less sad running this version?

You can install the latest release at http://listit.csail.mit.edu or
if you already have List-It installed, going to the Add-Ons menu under
Tools and clicking "Find Updates"

Again thank you all so much for the feedback and bringing this to our
(my) attention.

Yours,
Max Van Kleek
list-it dev lead
MIT CSAIL and University of Southampton

[rose...@groupee.com]

Thanks for looking into it, I'm sad without my list.it :)
It makes complete sense that it relates to the wireless card...all of
my internet-related stuff was borked when the error happened.