Snowflakes Crash My Firefox!
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The snowflakes are crashing my Firefox.
Ignoring “turning them off”, any ideas?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The thing to remember is that the snow takes quite a lot of processing power since the exact location of each snow flake has to be continually calculated by the javascript they are using for the snow feature, and if you leave a blog with snow up on your browser long enough, the browser will become unresponsive. It is just a matter of time. Never leave your browser, or a browser tab parked on a blog with snow or at some point your browser will either crash or will become unresponsive and you will have to club it in the head.
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It crashes Firefox very quickly, even if it’s the only tab open. It’s fine for anyone using IE though…
:o(
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You said above that it’s ignoring turning them off, do you mean FF or WP? Are the snow flakes a must for you?
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I was wondering if I had any other option, aside from turning them off.
I had to turn them off. It even crashes @ http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/a-little-snow-for-the-holidays/
Shame though, they were pretty…
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I have FF 3.5.x on Mac, and it does not crash with the snow. It will become unresponsive after a few minutes and if I wait much longer I have to force quit it, but it never really “crashes.”
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Snow, now turned off, caused Firefox to hog almost 100% of my processor capacity. FF didn’t crash but got glacially slow.
I know WP said older machines might have problems but mine’s a few months old (XP, 2.8MHz processor, 2GB RAM – not cutting edge but no sluggard either). Oddly the process is cumulative, but doesn’t go away when WP tabs are closed – restarting FF was the only solution.
Last winter I ran a laptop with half the memory but a similar processor with absolutely no problems with the snow. So has anything changed at WP’s end? I noticed this year that snow also appeared on the admin pages. Don’t recall seeing that last time. Is that new or did I just fail to notice it previously? And if new, is it part of the problem?
Whatever, the snow’s gone for good, sadly, as it was quite well received. Never mind, looks like we might be getting some of the real stuff to play with. . .
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FF is in general a processor hog. When I look at running processes and have FF open (but minimized) with just my blog page on it (no flash or anything) it will be taking anywhere from 3% to 5% of my processing capacity. If I have the same page open in Safari and Safari is minimized also, Safari is taking 0%. I even turned off all my add-ons in FF and it didn’t make a difference.
Before the last FF upgrade, it would take 9 to 21% when under the same conditions above. I had actually been whining to Mozilla about this since about 3.5.2 wanting an explanation and they never gave me one.
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The new snow is MORE resource-intensive than the old snow. Have you noticed it’s (vaguely) responsive to your cursor now?
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I did notice that and it helped me procrastinate on laundry. Once again WP helps me out. ;)
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I think raincaster is correct, last year I didn’t have any problems. Perhaps thesacredpath is correct, and it’s a Firefox issue.
Either way, I am begining to wish everyone would just turn it off. I can’t browse anyone’s blogs with Firefox! :o(
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@nomoregoatsoup, you can turn it off for your browser by going to the following link while logged into wordpress. It sets a cookie on your system.
Do note that you will probably have to restart your browser for it to take effect.
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If you turn it off on your blog, and are logged in to your account, then you won’t see it on any wordpress blogs.
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Well, my snow is off. And when I’m logged in, there is not snow. When I’m not logged in, I see snow.
I think I read that somewhere as well, but my memory is good.
good and short…
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