Note that I’ve not tried this yet as the infolister on this machine is very bare – only two extensions but that is because all the extensions that were loaded got wiped when I moved my Firefox profile directory. (Which would possibly reduce these firefox extension posts 🙂 Combined with the Mass Installer extension it looks like you can replicate an install of software from one machine to another easily – this would make it a lot easier for me to keep my machines in synch. One of the extensions listed in the book is infolister which lists all extensions and themes installed in firefox and can publish it to a website. I’m currently reading the Firefox Hacks book which is so much better than the firefox garage book. I did find a thread on the Google Help forums with the same solution which was nice to know that I wasn’t the only one with the problem and I came up with the same solution. For some reason the uninstall button is disabled. Seeing as though I only really use Skype to call my parents I don’t need the extension so it is now disabled. It wasn’t until I disabled the skype extension that the performance of google reader was back to normal and I could now send mail again.
I disabled all the likely culprits – flashblock, adblock,greasemonkey, better gmail, web developer, noscript but I still had the same problem. Fortunately this was 100% reproducible so I was able to do some diagnostic tests. Rebooting firefox into safe mode, or running ie8 worked fine so I knew it was not the computer but had to be an extension. GReader just had no idea what data to display in the right hand side of the screen and gmail would just stick in the “please wait”, “loading” or “still working” status after sending an email (but would actually send the email).
I have reported this extension as incompatible.Įver since I updated the home computer to run the RTM version of Windows7 my gmail and greader experience has been very frustrating in Firefox. With only this extension enabled I get the problem so it’s not a combination of extensions having problems. The A’s are greyed out as that is the character I typed to start the autocomplete sequence off. Disabling this I have a drop down box with url’s that I can see. It turns out it was the Delicious addon (v3.2.1). It took several minutes to disable half the addons and see if the problem continued and then repeat the process until I could work out the offending solution. Initially I thought it was Firefox using up too much memory, but the problem occurred on all of my machines even after a recent reboot so some troubleshooting was required.Īfter restarting Firefox in safe mode (Click the firefox button, choose Help, Restart with add-ons disabled) I confirmed it was a problem with one of my extensions. During the past week my Firefox (v16.0) Autocomplete drop down box has had missing text appear when I start typing in the address bar as seen in the screenshot below.
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