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Originally posted by haytrainDrew tried to help me out with this a couple months ago, but we couldn't figure it out. Here it goes again:

I've got an iMac, and whenever I post in the forums here on U2start, the page freezes halfway through loading after I click the "Post a reply to this topic" button. My post goes through, but in order to see any pages on U2start, I have to quit Firefox and restart it. Quite annoying. Any ideas?

update to Firefox 3? It's been released since you last posted.

haytrain

17 years

Weren't there a bunch of bugs in Firefox 3? If not, I'll DL it now.

EDIT: Actually, I don't think it's Firefox. I just posted this reply in Safari, and the same thing happened. I see the header at the top of the page, but nothing below that loads, and the progress bar at the bottom of the screen stops @ halfway.

U2Nick

17 years

Originally posted by haytrainWeren't there a bunch of bugs in Firefox 3? If not, I'll DL it now.

EDIT: Actually, I don't think it's Firefox. I just posted this reply in Safari, and the same thing happened. I see the header at the top of the page, but nothing below that loads, and the progress bar at the bottom of the screen stops @ halfway.

no bugs in my Safari

drewhiggins

17 years

Safari on the iTouch / iPhone and iMac are two very different things.

Firefox 3 works beautifully. Jeremy, can you do something like a System Restore or backtrack on your iMac?

drewhiggins

17 years

If anyone's genuinely interested, look what you can now do:

http://www.stunned.org/bono/googlebono.htm

markp91

17 years

Originally posted by drewhigginsIf anyone's genuinely interested, look what you can now do:

http://www.stunned.org/bono/googlebono.htm

lol...that's funny....

haytrain

17 years

Originally posted by drewhigginsSafari on the iTouch / iPhone and iMac are two very different things.

Firefox 3 works beautifully. Jeremy, can you do something like a System Restore or backtrack on your iMac?

I'm a little afraid to do that, since this is the iMac I got from my old work, and I'm not sure if doing any sort of restore will make me lose stuff that I can't get back (since I don't have the hard copies of the software). Plus, I've had this problem ever since I started using this iMac back in December or so. I think it's got to be something about the site that the Mac's settings don't like.

drewhiggins

17 years

Good point. I'll try a few things:

1. Open Safari > Preferences > Security > Enable Java / JavaScript > OK > Reload.

2. In Preferences (for Mac), click Network and check everything is fine.

3. Failing that, create a new user account and see if that fixes the issue.

I'm not holding my breath though. I have a feeling it's something too, that is conflicting because you said you gave both Firefox and Safari a go, and yet none of them work properly. If it doesn't work, call up the knobs at Apple and see what they can do - maybe nothing, or they know what the problem is.

Try a different browser if all else fails:

http://www.icab.de/
http://browser.netscape.com/
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
http://shiira.jp/en.php
http://www.opera.com/
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Another thing could be that the iMac has issues with Gecko. Gecko essentially is the web backend, or application programming interface (API) to Firefox and Safari, so if you can find an option in the Preferences relating to this, changing a setting or two could just kick it back into sxith gear.

In Firefox, also, try typing about:config, but be careful! There could be something conflicting there.

U2Nick

17 years

Hey guys! I need to ask you something. I want to have T-mobile's home phone service. However, I was wondering if I will need to purchase the router on the website, if I already own a router. I tried calling the customer service line, but I couldn't get a clear answer from anyone. So, I figured, why not try here? If you need to know, my desktop is running Windows Vista Home Basic, and my laptop is running XP. I'm not sure if its SP1, or SP2

.

Thanks!

haytrain

17 years

Hey Nick....I'm not Mr. Technology (like Drew), but I'm 99.99% sure that you can use your own router. We have cable through Charter Communications here, and we have our own router and our own cable modem. They wanted us to rent one from them, but we just use our own and save a couple bucks a month.

U2Nick

17 years

Originally posted by haytrainHey Nick....I'm not Mr. Technology (like Drew), but I'm 99.99% sure that you can use your own router. We have cable through Charter Communications here, and we have our own router and our own cable modem. They wanted to rent one from them, but we just use our own and save a couple bucks a month.

okay, thanks!

I'll wait until I get a number of responses that say the same thing before I tell my mom though. Thanks man!

WojBhoy

17 years

Cheers Drew and U2want, eventually I left it alone, turned the computer off, and the next day it was fine. Don't know what happened but anyway...

...in relation to that though, the two folders with which I've had such issues have been Brussels '87 and Tel Aviv '97. Now, whenever I play the 2 bootlegs, for some reason the opening file (Streets and Mofo respectively) come up separately on different folders, yet the rest of the files from each 'album' all have the same info., i.e. folder name, comments, genre, year and artist apart from individual stuff such as track name, number etc.

I mean, if I go to My Music folder etc. and then select the whole bootleg to listen to, they all come up as one playlist but if I go to the media library on WMP, I'm missing the 1st track from each boot. Anyone got any ideas?

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