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 06/20/2008 12:06:24 PM · #1
Lately Firefox gets stacked after opening some images or threads in dpchallenge. Every time and pretty easily!!!
Then I have to restart firefox. That never happens with other sites.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Any ideas?

PS OS: Windows XP
 06/20/2008 12:13:51 PM · #2
I've always has issues with DPC when using FireFox on a PC.
 06/20/2008 12:16:20 PM · #3
I use firefox, and haven't experienced that problem. Although I must say that I had a problem last night. I had about 8 tabs open with different websites (including several pages on DPC), which is normal for my browsing, and it hung while I was refreshing a page on another website. The CPU usage was maxed out and didn't clear up on its own. I tried closing firefox, and it appeared to close, but the process was still running and I couldn't restart it. I rebooted and the situation cleared up, and hasn't recurred -- yet. I use Vista and Firefox v2.0.0.14.
 06/20/2008 12:35:06 PM · #4
same version here!
 06/20/2008 01:02:24 PM · #5
Originally posted by JuliBoc:
I use firefox, and haven't experienced that problem. Although I must say that I had a problem last night. I had about 8 tabs open with different websites (including several pages on DPC), which is normal for my browsing, and it hung while I was refreshing a page on another website. The CPU usage was maxed out and didn't clear up on its own. I tried closing firefox, and it appeared to close, but the process was still running and I couldn't restart it. I rebooted and the situation cleared up, and hasn't recurred -- yet. I use Vista and Firefox v2.0.0.14.


That's what happened to me, until I disabled Pictlens... Works fine again now.

R.
 06/20/2008 01:12:37 PM · #6
I've had all sorts of issues today. But w/ no other websites
 06/20/2008 01:24:48 PM · #7
It happened to a lot of us, and seemed to coincide with thr release of FF3, but as previously mentioned, it appears to be an issue wit piclens.
 06/20/2008 01:44:08 PM · #8
I thought it was just me, thanks for posting this. I noticed that too the past couple days when I'd click on an image in a thread and it opens a new tab in FF. IE was fine (no Piclens). At home on Vista, I have a Vista Gadget that monitors my bandwidth, and I noticed my download would spike up to about 5.6xxx Mb/s and plateau there for about 2 minutes (not sure what it was downloading, nothing else happened). Impossible to do anything else during that time except close and restart FF.

Edit to add: Here's some screenshots of the meter, the first one is when a new tab is opened for a photo, and the second is after about 2 minutes. Not sure why it would spike so high for so long, unless Piclens is automatically downloading images for the viewer.

[thumb]690424[/thumb] [thumb]690427[/thumb]

I also use a similar gadget for cpu usage, both cores were at 100% too.

Message edited by author 2008-06-21 00:27:09.
 06/20/2008 01:51:04 PM · #9
I uninstalled Piclens yesterday, but still getting the stalls & crashes today when I browse pictures. I'm on IE.
06/20/2008 03:30:52 PM · #10
I have voted three challenges today and had no problem. I have piclens, but don't launch it except when viewing a Google image search. I also have Cooliris which I love and use a lot on DPC without problems.

PS: I don't usually have multiple sessions of Firefox running together. Instead I use multiple tabs in one Firefox session.

Message edited by author 2008-06-20 15:33:24.
 06/20/2008 04:55:47 PM · #11
Boo hoo, I never used to have such big problems with Piclens, but somehow it just doesn't like DPC :-(

FF 2 + DPC + Piclens = problems (so I got rid of both of them)
FF 3 + DPC - Piclens = works great ! (so I added Piclens again, hoping the newer FF will fix it)
FF 3 + DPC + Piclens = problems again.

Seems to be a choice between Piclens and DPC. Well, that was easy enough...... bye bye, Piclens :-(
 06/20/2008 05:04:36 PM · #12
Originally posted by Beetle:
Boo hoo, I never used to have such big problems with Piclens, but somehow it just doesn't like DPC :-(

FF 2 + DPC + Piclens = problems (so I got rid of both of them)
FF 3 + DPC - Piclens = works great ! (so I added Piclens again, hoping the newer FF will fix it)
FF 3 + DPC + Piclens = problems again.

Seems to be a choice between Piclens and DPC. Well, that was easy enough...... bye bye, Piclens :-(


I moved happily to OPERA so I managed to rename my latest upload:



Face 2 Face
 06/23/2008 11:54:01 AM · #13
I posted this and had no answer ....

previous post

Never had any issues with firefox before piclens, and with it disabled it works fine. So you don't need to uninstal piclens, just disable it under tools -> add ons
 07/09/2008 09:42:41 PM · #14
This has now been resolved: //www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=797996
 07/10/2008 02:02:15 PM · #15
Originally posted by langdon:
This has now been resolved: //www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=797996


Back to Firefox... Good job Langdon!
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