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Browsers got the eternal beachball. Now what?
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Two of my browsers are stuck beachballing after I tried to open a link that is apparently giving them problems. What can I do now to resume using these browsers? Thanks
1.3 iBook, OS 10.4.4, iCab 3.0.2b, Firefox (can't remember what version, and can't find out, due to beachballing).
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Click and hold on the icon in the Dock. You should have the "Force Quit" option if it's beachballing. If only "Quit" is available, hold down option when you open the dock menu.
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"You rise," he said, "like Aurora." 
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Is it a link to a page with a WMV video, and do you have Flip4Mac installed? I've found it to be a bit less than stellar, in some cases.
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Yeah, I bet it's a myspace profile.
Heh
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Thanks, Stradlater!
It's a link to a page that probably has video, or maybe audio. I thought this one would be flash, but I have no idea what it is since it didn't work. I believe I am using Flip4Mac to view WMV files within the Quicktime player. I was using Mplayer, but it gives crappy video quality and even worse control, so I migrated away from it. I'll use something else if it works well (not gonna try WMP though...).
Looks like it is some kind of WM*.
Click at your own risk.
Any way to turn off the WM audio/video browser-load and then DL the bare media seperately?
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Yeah, for a moment it looks like it's trying to load a WMV file with flip4mac's crappy (but indispensable) plugin with it's signature blurry QT controls, then Safari beachballs. I've never had problems with flip4mac before, though, so that page must be doing something special. 
FYI Opera doesn't crash on this page but instead asks to download a file called "wma.asf", which if you open it Safari, flip4mac says it cannot play (I've never successfully played an ASF files unless it was properly embedded in a web page—QuickTime Player, VLC, MPlayer all can't play them right).
(Last edited by Apfhex; Mar 2, 2006 at 01:53 PM.
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