TiddlyWikis freezing Firefox

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dickon

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Oct 13, 2009, 10:39:09 AM10/13/09
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I use various TW's from various sites (MPTW's on Tiddlyspot, TiddlyWeb
on Peermore, and the main TiddlyWiki.com site, etc) and all of a
sudden one desktop PC (Windows Vista, Firefox) has started freezing up
as soon as a TW starts to load - page appears to be taking much longer
than usual to load, then to freeze, then the Firefox window decelares
(Not Responding) on the top of the title bar - and the display within
the window fades. This happens with multiple different TW's, online,
and locally-stored, but only if I am openng it in Firefox, whereas IE
seems to handle them fine. Similarly, Firefox on my laptop (Windows
XP, Firefox) works just fine.

So I am assuming that some setting has got changed in Firefox, but I
cannot for the life of me thik what it could be. Any suggestions?

Dickon

wolfgang

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Oct 13, 2009, 11:18:05 AM10/13/09
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Hi Dickon,

I experienced the symptoms you describe with Firefox 3.5, therefore I
reverted back to FF2.

However, it could also be caused by any new FF extension you recently
added.

Regards..

dickon

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Oct 14, 2009, 11:42:52 AM10/14/09
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I will try rolling back to an earlier version when I get home.
thanks.

cmari

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Oct 14, 2009, 4:44:20 PM10/14/09
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You could try starting Firefox in Safe Mode first - that worked for me
and made me suspect that the problem was one of my Add-ons (I've been
slowly adding them back in, but I haven't yet pinpointed the one that
caused the trouble).
cmari

dickon

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Oct 18, 2009, 7:59:36 AM10/18/09
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I have worked out that it is the Skype Plug-in (3.3.0.3971) for
Firefox (3.5.3) that seems to cause the freezing. Has anyone else
noticed this? I have no idea what to do about this now in terms of
fixing the problem, but if I disable this one plug-in within my
Firefox, then TW's work fine again.

Dickon

On Oct 14, 9:44 pm, cmari <cema...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You could try starting Firefox in Safe Mode first - that worked for me
> and made me suspect that the problem was one of my Add-ons (I've been
> slowly adding them back in, but I haven't yet pinpointed the one that
> caused the trouble).
> cmari
>

rouilj

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Oct 18, 2009, 8:06:48 PM10/18/09
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On Oct 18, 7:59 am, dickon <dickon.beving...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have worked out that it is the Skype Plug-in (3.3.0.3971)  for
> Firefox (3.5.3) that seems to cause the freezing.  Has  anyone else
> noticed this?

well:
http://www.mail-archive.com/tiddl...@googlegroups.com/msg07471.html

--rouilj

BH2

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Oct 19, 2009, 5:43:12 PM10/19/09
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Yes, I found the same thing. It was the Skype extension causing the
problem and it's now gone away.

dickon

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Oct 22, 2009, 7:06:18 PM10/22/09
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Good to see that I'm not alone, and that there's a fix (disable the
Skype plug-in), but is there a process for fixing the bug at source?
Certainly something miles beyond my competence!

Dickon

On Oct 19, 10:43 pm, BH2 <bluehor...@telus.net> wrote:
> Yes, I found the same thing. It was the Skype extension causing the
> problem and it's now gone away.
>

FND

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Oct 23, 2009, 6:49:48 AM10/23/09
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> is there a process for fixing the bug at source?

You might wanna contact the developers:
https://developer.skype.com/Support


-- F.

dickon

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Oct 24, 2009, 11:17:08 AM10/24/09
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i have registered the details of this problem with Skype.

Cheers
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