Can the Google Toolbar and Firefox on the Mac Please Get Along?
I recently started having a nagging problem with FireFox on my Macbook Pro where FireFox would randomly freeze and serve up the spinning beach ball of death. I could force quit out of it and generally start back up where I left off without too many problems because FireFox would remember what tabs I had open, but it was a major annoyance nonetheless.
Eventually, I wiped FireFox off my Mac and reinstalled it from scratch, solving the problem. Of course, it was only a matter of time before I started adding extensions and toolbars back into the mix. The first extension reintroduced was the Performancing blogging extension. No conflicts there. Next came the Google Toolbar, and guess what: I found the culprit. The problem returned. Uninstalling the toolbar made the problem go away.
I'm currently running FireFox 2.0, but had the problem before upgrading. The toolbar has PageRank turned on. I haven't tested it without that feature enabled.
I get this problem too.
1. Posted by: Harold on November 15, 2006 1:51 PM:
Google is no stranger to Firefox or to open source projects and development. The company plucked Ben Goodger from his post as lead engineer for Firefox earlier this year. Its Summer of Code initiative pumped new ideas into the open source community with over 40 sponsored projects and $2 million in internship grants. Google also recently donated $350,000 to two universities in Oregon, including Oregon State, which is a major host of the Mozilla project.