Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 24, 8:38 am, James E. Therrault mjrtas...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: On Feb 22, 12:45 am, James E. Therrault mjrtas...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: Sometimes, the only way to find out is to remove any additions, (one at a time if necessary), and see if the problem goes away. JT I started disabling add-ons with X-Marks, since that one is in use more often than the others. And the SBBOD (Spinning Beach Ball of Death) disappeared!! As soon as I enabled it again, it was back! Now the problem is that I want to sync my bookmarks with my other Macs and Xmarks did that. Does anyone know why Xmarks would cause the SBBOD and how to prevent it? Jane -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 25, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: On Feb 24, 8:38 am, James E. Therrault mjrtas...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: On Feb 22, 12:45 am, James E. Therrault mjrtas...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: Sometimes, the only way to find out is to remove any additions, (one at a time if necessary), and see if the problem goes away. JT I started disabling add-ons with X-Marks, since that one is in use more often than the others. And the SBBOD (Spinning Beach Ball of Death) disappeared!! As soon as I enabled it again, it was back! Now the problem is that I want to sync my bookmarks with my other Macs and Xmarks did that. Does anyone know why Xmarks would cause the SBBOD and how to prevent it? If you find out, let me know... None of my Macs have synchronized bookmarks JT -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On 2011/02/25 10:06, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: Now the problem is that I want to sync my bookmarks with my other Macs This is one of the awesome things you can do with Dropbox. First go to ~/Library, right or control click on the Mozilla folder, make a duplicate for safe keeping and move it where you can find it later if the need should arise. Now move the Mozilla folder to your Dropbox folder and create a symbolic link of it. Move the symlink back to ~/Library and remove the space symlink from the name (the name of the Mozilla folder and the symlink you create have to be identical). Then go to your other Macs, set the ~/Library/Mozilla folder aside for safekeeping, make a symbolic link of the Mozilla folder in Dropbox, move the symlink to ~/Library and remove the space symlink from the name. Repeat this with all Macs you want to synch your bookmarks with. This will live update all your bookmarks so if you accidently delete the Mozilla folder in Dropbox, be sure to disconnect from the internet before you log into another Mac because that change will be 'synchronized' too if you don't. Symbolic links can be made via Terminal or using CM/Services plug-ins. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15 HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.5.8 Mac Pro Mid-2010 2.8 GHz QC 6 GB RAM Radeon HD 5770 1GB VRAM 10.6.6 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: On Feb 22, 12:45 am, James E. Therrault mjrtas...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I suspect a s/w problem/conflict but that's just a guess based on years of experience with nutscrape, mozilla, thunderbird products. OTOH, the very latest Safari seems to be super stable as compared to former versions of that browser. As an aside, the op is obviously running intel, (as am I), but that group seems not to have the traffic as the g group. G' Day! JT I installed LogMeIn about 3 weeks ago and did some updates for Snow Leopard and TechTracker. X-Marks has been playng havoc with my Bookmarks, too, but don't know if that could be the cause. Jane Sometimes, the only way to find out is to remove any additions, (one at a time if necessary), and see if the problem goes away. JT -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On 2011/02/23 20:22, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: On Feb 21, 8:54 pm, Tina K.penguir...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/02/21 18:02, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! I read my email online, so it is a real pain! Anyone else having a problem or know how to fix it? Perhaps a corrupt pref file? Try moving your Firefox pref(s) to the desktop and see if it still happens. You might also try creating a brand new user account and see if it happens from there. Tina Tina, I looked for the Firefox Prefs in LibraryPreferences, but couldn't find them. Where are they? I think they are in ~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles... Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15 HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.5.8 Mac Pro Mid-2010 2.8 GHz QC 6 GB RAM Radeon HD 5770 1GB VRAM 10.6.6 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 21, 7:37 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! I read my email online, so it is a real pain! Anyone else having a problem or know how to fix it? Ideas: It might be a common font problem?: http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/articles/fix-firefox-font-rendering-pro... You might look in the Console logs for a problem, perhaps in the / Library/LogsHangReporterFirefox? You may have to dig around some. Kris, I tried the font idea. It didn't help. I went to the Library/ LogsHangReporterFirefox and that was empty. But the CrashReporter folder had the Hangs. I didn't get much out of reading it, since I don't know what to look for. I did notice a lot of the word Kernel and this: Thread 7bb97a8 Kernel stack: 18 IOWorkLoop::threadMain() + 0 [0x54ba1c] over and over again. Jane -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 21, 8:54 pm, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/02/21 18:02, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! I read my email online, so it is a real pain! Anyone else having a problem or know how to fix it? Perhaps a corrupt pref file? Try moving your Firefox pref(s) to the desktop and see if it still happens. You might also try creating a brand new user account and see if it happens from there. Tina Tina, I looked for the Firefox Prefs in LibraryPreferences, but couldn't find them. Where are they? Jane -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 22, 12:45 am, James E. Therrault mjrtas...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! I read my email online, so it is a real pain! Anyone else having a problem or know how to fix it? Ideas: It might be a common font problem?: http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/articles/fix-firefox-font-rendering-pro... You might look in the Console logs for a problem, perhaps in the /Library/LogsHangReporterFirefox? You may have to dig around some. I suspect a s/w problem/conflict but that's just a guess based on years of experience with nutscrape, mozilla, thunderbird products. OTOH, the very latest Safari seems to be super stable as compared to former versions of that browser. As an aside, the op is obviously running intel, (as am I), but that group seems not to have the traffic as the g group. G' Day! JT I installed LogMeIn about 3 weeks ago and did some updates for Snow Leopard and TechTracker. X-Marks has been playng havoc with my Bookmarks, too, but don't know if that could be the cause. Jane -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 22, 7:20 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! Try starting Firefox in safe mode: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode?s=Safe+modeas=s Then immediately clear the cache. This is a common symptom of a corrupted cache. -- Bruce Johnson Started up in Safe Mode and cleared the cache. I kept Firefox opened for a bit and did not get the beach ball. Quit Firefox and restarted --- and it's back (Don't know if this complicates or makes the problem clearer, but all of a sudden I can't print from my laptop. The printer is plugged into the desktopinto Airportinto cable modem. X-Marks has screwed up my Bookmarks. So I have been organizing them on the desktop ---between beach ball restarts. When I had them just as I wanted, I had Foxmarks export them (Firefox doesn't have an Export feature, just Import from Safari) imported them into Safari and then had Firefox import them again. All the while starting Firefox--force quit and restarting Firefox.) Jane -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! I read my email online, so it is a real pain! Anyone else having a problem or know how to fix it? Ideas: It might be a common font problem?: http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/articles/fix-firefox-font-rendering-problem-in-snow-leopard/ You might look in the Console logs for a problem, perhaps in the /Library/LogsHangReporterFirefox? You may have to dig around some. I suspect a s/w problem/conflict but that's just a guess based on years of experience with nutscrape, mozilla, thunderbird products. OTOH, the very latest Safari seems to be super stable as compared to former versions of that browser. As an aside, the op is obviously running intel, (as am I), but that group seems not to have the traffic as the g group. G' Day! JT -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! Try starting Firefox in safe mode: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode?s=Safe+modeas=s Then immediately clear the cache. This is a common symptom of a corrupted cache. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
The spinning beach ball and Firefox
I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! I read my email online, so it is a real pain! Anyone else having a problem or know how to fix it? Jane -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 21, 2011, at 8:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! I read my email online, so it is a real pain! Anyone else having a problem or know how to fix it? Sometimes having a harddrive going/gone bad will cause this. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On Feb 21, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! I read my email online, so it is a real pain! Anyone else having a problem or know how to fix it? Ideas: It might be a common font problem?: http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/articles/fix-firefox-font-rendering-problem-in-snow-leopard/ You might look in the Console logs for a problem, perhaps in the / Library/LogsHangReporterFirefox? You may have to dig around some. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox
On 2011/02/21 18:02, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, shut down and nothing helps! I read my email online, so it is a real pain! Anyone else having a problem or know how to fix it? Perhaps a corrupt pref file? Try moving your Firefox pref(s) to the desktop and see if it still happens. You might also try creating a brand new user account and see if it happens from there. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15 HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.5.8 Mac Pro Mid-2010 2.8 GHz QC 6 GB RAM Radeon HD 5770 1GB VRAM 10.6.6 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
