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MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:23 am
by 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...
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:32 am
by Coulson
Upgrade or reinstall.
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:37 am
by 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".
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:56 am
by Coulson
http://instantbird.comGood IM program. I've started using it recently and it's very stable as far as I can tell.
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:08 am
by Kit-Fox
Removed
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:09 am
by Clarkey
My advice is do what i've done, don't use instant messaging anymore lol.
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:04 am
by Psyko
Zeratul wrote: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.
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:43 pm
by 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.
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:23 pm
by 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.
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:11 am
by Dubby_CompGamerGeek2
whatever it was... gone for now.
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:27 am
by Kit-Fox
Removed
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:39 pm
by Dubby_CompGamerGeek2
Kit-Fox wrote: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?
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:46 pm
by 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.
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:36 pm
by Dubby_CompGamerGeek2
Jedi~Tank wrote: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...)
Re: MSN / WLM crashing my BrowserS... ?
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:13 am
by Zeratul
amsn is much nicer that way... the bugs are consistent... they dont just randomly appear...