In the past week, two friends and readers have informed me that GitM is acting somewhat squirrelly in the latest version of Firefox for Mac. Now, I’m a PC guy (by usage and by temperament), so I can’t troubleshoot the problem on my computers here. But, is anyone else out there having issues recently? My guess it probably has something to do with embedded videos, since that’s the only “new” thing around here lately, and most likely I’m betting the problem is either this St. Patrick’s Day post from last week or the Tracey Morgan SNL one right before it. Does anyone know if Firefox (on a Mac) hiccups with certain types of embedded videos, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Update: Raza at High Industrial informed me that the offending party was likely the Tracy Morgan post. I’ve now removed the embedded video…Mac Firefoxers, is everything back to normal?
Yeah, it has been freezing up when I go to the page on Firefox, so I’ve been checking it out on Safari.
Do you know of any formal effort to contact supers and persuade them to start coming out with endorsements? (I heard about the “mini convention” idea, but I think it would be a lot more useful to get it clarified before June.
No, not really. Just the mini-convention idea. Al Giordano says today that Clinton super Lynn Woolsey is contemplating switching, but that’s the only new super news I’ve heard today (and that’s far from confirmed.)
I cannot scroll on firefox (even now). I am using Safari.
I was having trouble with Firefox on my Mac too, but I was having a lot of trouble anyway because I was trying to switch to Leopard (OS 10.5), and it just wouldn’t take. Now I’m back on Tiger, and it seems to work fine.
Oops, spoke too soon… still having trouble on Firefox. Safari works fine.
I use Safari, and I couldn’t open the Tracy Morgan video. I suspect there may be some plug-in/codec thing that is bundled in the normal Windows/WMP/IE package that isn’t automatically included on the Mac. On the other hand, I can open, for example, the Dr. Who trailer. So YouTube works, at least. Also, regarding the Tracy Morgan video, the link to http://www.redlasso.com appears to be dead — when I open it, it says this video is not available.
Thanks all. It occurred to me last night that the reason Mac-Firefox still might not be working is that there’s another NBC embed on the site at the moment: Keith Olbermann’s Murrowing of Clinton. Does that one work?
Also, Seth, I updated the Morgan link to NBC. My b.
I’m using firefox on mac, and just upgraded to Leopard, which (contrary to Eric’s experience) seems to have solved the problem
as I typed that, my firefox quit unexpectedly, then reopened with my first half of my comments cached. I guess it’s not solved! But I am reading GitM in firefox now. Not sure why it seems sporadic.