fastdial hangs system
Anonymous (not verified) —Fri, 01/23/2009 - 09:47
i'm using firefox 3.0.5, with fastdial 2.2b on winxp, 2.66ghz cpu, 512mb ram, with nvidia geforce 7100gs.
there's a very serius bug with fd. i've recreated it so many times that i can confidently say it's very serius.
by default fastdial captures a small thumbnail of the website added to any block. when a block is refreshed it takes a while for fastdial to capture the thumbnail. in the meantime, if any other block is right-clicked and any of the popup option is selected, fastdial totally hangs the system. firefox, startmenu, taskbar, system tray, the whole os itself. in one instance, i waited for about one half hour but the system remained hung, with absolutely no response, whatsoever, from keyboard or mouse. not even the taskmanager works. not even the best anticrash software - antifreeze! and this horrible bug not only exists in this beta version, but in all the previus versions too.
the image i've captured could only be done with a cam because of obvius reasons as above. so here's the link. sorry it's only 320x240 as my cell cam is capable only that much. but the bug is recognizable and anyone can recreate it with the steps i've pointed out above.
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/2618/img0028ajg9.th.jpg
i'd request telega to rectify this soon before i switch my loyalty. i'm talking about speed dial. not only is it free of any bugs but also loads way faster than fast dial. the only thing speed dial doesn't have is drag'n drop, which telega wrongly claimed as 'faster drag and drop' in 2.22b. in my system, even if i use only fast dial as the addon, it still manages a huge 6sec for a drag'n drop to the adjacent block.
in anticipation of a speedy rectification, thanx in advance to telega.
Re: fastdial hangs system
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 10:23Thank you for your reply.
It would seem that there was a typo in my memory description, which you have drawn my attention to.
I have corrected the post.
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Would you be so kind as to post a list of all your Firefox plugins and extensions.
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Many thanks
Re: fastdial hangs system
Submitted by telega on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 12:50@gEEkEr,
You were told 3 times to try version 2.23b1 where the "Firefox" submenu is removed.
Re: fastdial hangs system
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 02:29Posted by Geeker on AMO
fastdial is nothing but 100% buggy software. it's creator telega and endorser mafia_penguin (@userlogos.org) don't know the basics of system working. when questioned by many about it, they reply saying 'why not try 2.23b'. such is their nonsensical understanding. a genuine programmer would try debugging why fd versions 2.x (till 2.22) hang the system when right-clicked and one of the submenus chosen. i hope firefox takes some steps to blacklist fastdial. otherwise ask all the users to try the right-clicking and choosing submenus.
the truth stares in the face!
Mmmm.....
The truth did not stare in the face because the problem could not be reproduced.
The suggestion to try another Version was an effort to try and examine the nature of the problem.
Blacklisting Fast Dial does seem rather undeserved !
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