Comments on: Gmail 2.0 Locking up Firefox

By: Editor

Editor — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:24:42 +0000

Oh man, I can’t believe he hasn’t fixed it yet. Is there a way to disable the validator for specific sites (sort of like FireBug?)

By: Nolawi

Nolawi — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:22:18 +0000

Well – I am still having issues thats with it.. that is why i am wondering how long it would take for the guy to fix the issue once he was aware of it…

Its just too bad – its one of those addons I use everysingle day you know…

By: Editor

Editor — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:12 +0000

Nolawi, not sure… you could give it a try and let us know?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249

By: Nolawi

Nolawi — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:18:34 +0000

Hi I am wondering if this issue still exists… can you update this pplease please please

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:08:37 +0000

yea same….gmail/ff locks up. i’ll try the validator issue.

By: Feylamia

Feylamia — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:46:06 +0000

Cheers for that!

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:22:52 +0000

Libby, what other addons do you have installed inside of Firefox?

By: Libby!

Libby! — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:18:47 +0000

I have this problem, but I don’t have HTML Validator installed. Has anyone seen other reasons/solutions?

Thanks!

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:44:35 +0000

Hah, Frosty that’s how I felt too when I found the fix. I’m glad it helped you.

BTW your eyeball art is freaky:

but awesome looking.

By: tony:frosty

tony:frosty — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:41:43 +0000

omg I love you! Thanks for the solutions – this was driving me nuts!

By: Scott Lenger

Scott Lenger — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:36:00 +0000

Gmail’s recent behavior has been making me go insane!! Thanks for posting the solution Kate. The difference is night and day.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:52:44 +0000

Ahh very nice, thanks John.

By: John

John — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:50:42 +0000

It’s semi-obvious. If you open Add-Ons under Tools, then go to HTML Validator and click “Options”, there’s a checkbox that says “Enable validation in the browser”. To the right of that is an “Exceptions” button. Push that then add whatever you want to block. It was easiest for me to just block google.com as there’s really no point for me validating any part of Google.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:38:04 +0000

Kate,
Good call. Is it obvious how to block it for a specific domain? (I don’t remember seeing that in the UI before I removed it… was wondering if it was buried in there somewhere).

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:05:08 +0000

I blocked html validator for https://mail.google.com and it now works just fine.

By: ciprian

ciprian — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:28:46 +0000

hi, im only experiencing problems when i log out, it crashes firefox and closes it so i have to restart it everytime i’m done checking my email, its been going on for 2 months now, i have these extensions enabled web developer 1.1.4, firebug 1.05, and dom inspector 1.8.1.1.1 anyone experiencing the same behavior?

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:10:08 +0000

Dave,
I’m glad it helped, I know *exactly* how you feel. Before I found out why it was locking up that was exactly the behavior I was seeing, and I was going freaking nuts.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:23:09 +0000

Thank You! I’ve been going insane with this problem for awhile now and have searched for solutions before with no luck. I thought it must have been me. It was hit and miss and seems when I was really in a hurry and searched for an email in my gmail with my firefox, BAM – Locked up. I appreciate that you not only documented the problem of firefox locking up when searching gmail but that you also found a solution. Cheers!

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:27:52 +0000

Beautiful! One quick Web search and my most annoying computer problem is solved. Thank you.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:42:55 +0000

ttrentham,
Was that a brand new install of HTML Validator recently? Does it *still* crash Firefox after all this time? I figured the author would have fixed it by now… oyvey

By: ttrentham

ttrentham — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:22:36 +0000

Yep, GMail locks up Firefox 2.0.0.11 at least once a day since I installed HTML Validator 0.8.4.0. Bye, bye HTML Validator.

By: ha|ns

ha|ns — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:57:43 +0000

Thanks a lot!
This problem was driving me nuts.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:32:52 +0000

Julie glad we could help. I love it when I google for something vague, and think I’m just gonna run around in circles, but end up finding an article that is spot-on to what I want.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:10:59 +0000

Bless you for posting this! One quick google search and the problems resolved.