MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?

[Dubby_CompGamerGeek2]

Greetings, this is a request for community input, as I think my firefox and IE browsers are both being crashed by a bug related to Windows Live Messenger, and / or a javascript .dll file.

please advise...

[Coulson]

Upgrade or reinstall.

[Zeratul]

Getting rid of IE is a good idea. Then replace windows live. Either with a newer version, or with something that can communicate over the same protocols. Though not the perfect messenger, we are fairly satisfied with "amsn".

[Coulson]

http://instantbird.com

Good IM program. I've started using it recently and it's very stable as far as I can tell.

[Kit-Fox]

Removed

[Clarkey]

My advice is do what i've done, don't use instant messaging anymore lol.

[Psyko]

Getting rid of IE is a good idea. Then replace windows live. Either with a newer version, or with something that can communicate over the same protocols. Though not the perfect messenger, we are fairly satisfied with "amsn".

Now there is a program with bugs. But, being a Mac user (yeah, yeah), I don't have much of a choice.

MSN/WLM usually has a fairly detailed forum for bugs and fixes. I'd take a look at it if I were you and see what was brought up there.

[Zeratul]

Oh, yes... amsn has its generous share of bugs. Quite undeniable. but at least its free of all those features one neither needs nor wants in live messenger.

[Dubby_CompGamerGeek2]

i actually use meebo.com the majority of the time,
but i also know of ebuddy.com, digsby.com and msn web messenger.

the problem seemed to have had something to do with the network,
as i crashed with both meebo and web messenger...

though it might possibly be some totally unrelated script error...

indeed, i'm not sure that i was always getting the same error...

a couple of times, i had barely gotten Firefox safe mode open when it crashed...

i finally did a system restore as far back as possible,
(no big deal, cuz i don't remember any major changes of mine)

and without tempting instant messaging, no issues...

i will find the time to give that a go this weekend.

[Dubby_CompGamerGeek2]

whatever it was... gone for now.

[Kit-Fox]

Removed

[Dubby_CompGamerGeek2]

Good thats its gone, not so great the cause didnt seem to get pinned down.

But then its the Live service & like all MS products I think we all expect them to have random glitches and bugs from time to time.

I know, right?

[jedi~tank]

Same for me, what I have resorted to is just logging on my hotmail.com page and letting my messenger run from there.

[Dubby_CompGamerGeek2]

Same for me, what I have resorted to is just logging on my hotmail.com page and letting my messenger run from there.

that is one of my backup plans... but at the time, that was a no-go as well...

(At that point, I didn't even try yahoo or AIM web messengers
for testing or anything else...)

[Zeratul]

amsn is much nicer that way... the bugs are consistent... they dont just randomly appear...