that might just be your firefox, I've never had any problems...

-the bouncy sleepy bar of chocolate

Something wrong on your end clearly - although these recent snowflakes make some tasks a little slower, nothing Boinng has ever done has crashed either IE or Firefox on my computer.

Nothing bad has ever happened to me on boinng...

Honestly now...

admittedly the snowflakes do slow things down a little, but hey, it's christmas (still!)...

boinng is just a bunch of html and some pretty small graphics, i can't really see how it could break any browser, or at least any browser that was working properly. the fact that it's affected both your IE and Firefox installs makes me think there's some wider issue with your PC. the logo's in shockwave, is it possible you need to reinstall that? just trying to think of anything that might affect both browsers...

if anyone else is having problems like these then please tell me, but on the face of it i don't see any way at all for boinng to have a "bug" that could cause this.

This message was edited by:Tim on 2004-12-30 04:54

Delete! Delete!

i've never had any problems on boinng either (a part from the occasional cookie problem, they're just too yummie i can't help it), not with ie, not with firefox...

I'm pretty sure those of you who said the problem is at my end are right, but no other websites crash anything, just boinng

I'll try deleting any cookies I can find, but I can't see how they'd be causing any mischief.

Party!

Just FYI, your user profile getting corrupted shouldn't cause you to lose actual files - unless you mean the disk got corrupted. You can find files on your desktop at

C:\\Documents and Settings\\username\\Desktop

Unfortunately during the restart after the IE crash, it ran disk checking an found an error in c:\\documents and settings\\alex (ie my user profile folder), so it rather nicely compressed the folder to a non-existant file then deleted it all. Without asking me if I wanted to (the only time I could've stopped it was the few seconds you get to cancel disk checking, which I figured would be a go0d idea following the crash). Like I said, I managed to retrieve it all ok with a recovery program (called GetDataBack for FAT if you're interested (yes my WinXP partition is FAT32, no I didn't do that, the PC was one of those pre-built ones)), an made a new profile. My Uni work is now on a different HDD

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Ah, fair enough. Windows is odd. But convert c: /FS:NTFS ?

about firefox though, i've noticed that it doesnt quite work as well on boinng as ie does. Like the new forum posts, they stay "new" way too long, while ie always knew wat really was new. Again this seems like a cookie problem and i really don't know why it's always me who seems to be messing them up... or am i not the only one who's noticed this? (just for the record : i know it's not boinng 'cause it works perfectly fine in ie)

I think I've only ever had to look at a 'new' post twice to get it to not be new any more (on firefox), but I do get that a lot.

-the bouncy sleepy bar of chocolate

It works correctly for me in opera, not that knowing that will help you at all.

i'm happy for you though

about the cookies... i've seen this too, and tho i'd love to blame it all on firefox and leave it at that i've a nasty feeling i've seen in IE too recently. i can't say with absolute certainty i haven't just broken something somewhere..

i shall keep an eye on it.

Delete! Delete!

resetting my cookies seems to have worked - for now...