Comments on: Firefox Extention SwitchProxy Calling Home? http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/ devnulled provides news, tips, resources, and articles about various topics that software developers and engineers enjoy. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:34:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: zeljko http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/comment-page-1/#comment-440211 zeljko Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:50:18 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/#comment-440211 i dont have switch proxy installed and still firefox freezes after 3 secs of streaming and there is no sound too. please somebody help, cuz IE is driving me nuts. i dont have switch proxy installed and still firefox freezes after 3 secs of streaming and there is no sound too. please somebody help, cuz IE is driving me nuts.

]]> By: Shiaogang http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/comment-page-1/#comment-8894 Shiaogang Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:29:36 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/#comment-8894 Thank you very much for the insight; it was driving me nuts! Thank you very much for the insight; it was driving me nuts!

]]> By: alixta http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/comment-page-1/#comment-5638 alixta Tue, 03 May 2005 01:15:59 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/#comment-5638 We had the same problem with switchproxy. Initially thought it was firefox update hanging. We had the same problem with switchproxy. Initially thought it was firefox update hanging.

]]> By: James http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/comment-page-1/#comment-5529 James Mon, 02 May 2005 00:03:02 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/#comment-5529 yyyyyyup ~ on both desktops and the laptops. wtf?!?! Thanks for the help zooming in on this, I thought I was going insane. yyyyyyup ~ on both desktops and the laptops. wtf?!?! Thanks for the help zooming in on this, I thought I was going insane.

]]> By: shernren http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/comment-page-1/#comment-3314 shernren Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:02:44 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/#comment-3314 It gets even better with portablefirefox ... the thing completely hung on startup, 99% of the time, and the other 1% of the time it hung right after the home page had been loaded. XP in the end I had to kick it into offline mode to change the settings properly. Thanks commenters for helping me pin it down! It gets even better with portablefirefox … the thing completely hung on startup, 99% of the time, and the other 1% of the time it hung right after the home page had been loaded. XP in the end I had to kick it into offline mode to change the settings properly. Thanks commenters for helping me pin it down!

]]> By: Aaron http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Aaron Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:08:09 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/#comment-584 Thanks #1, mine's been freezing up recently too, I bet this will be the end to my issues. Thanks #1, mine’s been freezing up recently too, I bet this will be the end to my issues.

]]> By: Weblog for Costin Manolache http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Weblog for Costin Manolache Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:53:11 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/#comment-493 <strong>Firefox hanging on startup ( linux ) -> disable extension updates, switchproxy </strong> Using strace and lsof, finally figured it was switchproxy, but I suspect any other extension may have the same effect.Make sure you disable updates on startup - they seem to happen in the main thread, and if the site is down or your networkis funny, it... Firefox hanging on startup ( linux ) -> disable extension updates, switchproxy

Using strace and lsof, finally figured it was switchproxy, but I suspect any other extension may have the same effect.Make sure you disable updates on startup – they seem to happen in the main thread, and if the site is down or your networkis funny, it…

]]> By: SwitchProxy User http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/comment-page-1/#comment-298 SwitchProxy User Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:42:45 +0000 http://devnulled.com/content/2005/02/extention-switchproxy-calling-home/#comment-298 Ive noticed the same thing, and decided to do a google search of switchproxy being slow(thats how i found this), and i found a site that has other firefox extensions, and seen that others had this problem, it was because the SwitchProxy extension is trying to contact the the site of the person that made it, and its connecting to search for updates, and what u need to do is go to preferences for SwitchProxy extension and uncheck the box that says "Notify me of updates", that should fix the problem, the reason it is slow is because the site it searches for updates on is down, and it cant contact the site, disabling auto-updates helped me, hope it works for you... Ive noticed the same thing, and decided to do a google search of switchproxy being slow(thats how i found this), and i found a site that has other firefox extensions, and seen that others had this problem, it was because the SwitchProxy extension is trying to contact the the site of the person that made it, and its connecting to search for updates, and what u need to do is go to preferences for SwitchProxy extension and uncheck the box that says “Notify me of updates”, that should fix the problem, the reason it is slow is because the site it searches for updates on is down, and it cant contact the site, disabling auto-updates helped me, hope it works for you…

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