Firefox Woes; Typepad Problems
By Rhodo Zeb. Filed in China |Tags: censor.ship, software
What the heck is wrong with FF? As a platform-independent application, I suppose many people may be having the same problem. I left it on all night, and woke up this morning to a barely-responsive computer. I checked my system monitor, and FF was listed as ‘uninterruptable’ and was using 1.3 gigs of memory! Its been problematic for awhile now, but that takes the cake!
Now I can’t open the program for long, or open many tabs, without everything all-but freezing up. FF is pretty well known for memory leaks, but it seemed to be getting better recently. Now its worse than ever.
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I noticed that Typepad comments were blocked on certain influential websites some time ago, and recently confirmed that this situation continues.
I find that any link with ‘comments’ in it will often fail to open, but may open on a second or third try. So for instance, if I click on the title of Brad Delong’s recent post on US debt outstanding, I will be ok, but if I click on the comments link for that post I will find the page blocked. And, as noted previously, as I said comments are there when I get to the page, (through the first link, obviously), but the dialog to comment is not.
I also found that there seems to be some problem using Typepad comments on other sites, but infrequently. Sometimes I get a pop-up error, something like, ‘we can’t accept this data, sorry’. One time I managed to open a new page and cut and paste the comment in there, and get it to post, but this has happened on a couple sites, so I am suspicious.
God forbid someone would write a comment on Brad Delong’s site about how the Chinese Government actively seeks to control everyone and control all sources of information, and even goes to laughable lengths, embarrassingly futile lengths, to do so.
Because its been so hush-hush all this time, you know. Would be a shame, really.