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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2005-08-26 01:47 am
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Fun with processes

OkCupid pwned my browser. I had to close the thing. (It evidently does not play well with at least my instance of Firefox.) Then I learned that it would not start again when I did clicky clicky. (See how my technical vocabulary suffers?) Like, nothing. Then I wound up thinking I would reboot, but when I started a conversation, not remembering that I was going to shut down, I said "Bah!" and went into my task mangler and looked at my processes. So why was firefox.exe still at the top of the list, beeyatch? I shut that down, and all its child processes too. (Does it ever disturb anyone that I am a witch and my ex-girlfriend was called my Pretty? But she does not have a dog.) Surprise surprise, firefox started back up.

I am not happy with the site, because their IM thing, if not disabled, is an even bigger resource-suck than Gmail's auto-refresh. This was worse than normal.
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[identity profile] cawingcrow.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
OK Cupid's quizzes often screw up Firefox for me, if I accidentally click more than once on a Next button (usually after thinking it isn't doing anything and I must not have hit it). It then closes all of the windows (but not the process), wants to send error messages, and takes forever to get back up. If you don't realize the process is running, trying to open Firefox again blows the default user and is a pain to fix. I've noticed this seems to always happen when I have Trillian going as well--no idea if it is related or not.

[identity profile] elysianmusings.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I avoid Gmail's auto refresh by not leaving it in an open tab. I just close out of it and reopen it as necessary. This is the beauty of either Google Notifier or Google Messenger. They let me know if I have new mail to bother checking out.

Or course, though, if Gmail is your primary account, this could prove troublesome.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2005-08-31 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
Mine just freezes and pwns the address bar, and fux0rs any attempts to go anywhere in any other tab or window.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2006-01-24 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
Y!'s actually my primary account. I've taken to leaving Gmail closed.
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