PLoS One didn’t like my Firefox extensions
Like half of the world should already know, PlosOne is alive and kicking. Most of the life science blogs I read have been going on about it and are all enjoying the new open science journal. But I can’t seem to open the website without my Firefox crashing!
I’ve tried visiting the website successfully with IE6, IE7 and even Firefox on my older computer, but my notebook just doesn’t seem to like it! I’m not sure if it is related to my extensions or my firewall or something. It seems that PLoSOne.org is loaded with javascript, so it could be restricting me somehow. In fact, it just crashes my browser..
Any idea why this could be happening?
Update January 18th: I’ve been playing around with my extensions and uninstalled a couple I don’t really use and now PLoS One opens on the spot! I’m happy!
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Strange indeed. My workplace has more firewalls than most places on earth, but PLoS One works properly. I suspect its the extensions, but thats a wild guess.
PS. Yours has to be one of the better looking life science blogs out there
I can’t seem to find out why it isn’t working. It may in fact be the extensions (now called addons).
I’m using a couple of them, namely:
- Adsense Notifier
- ColorZilla
- del.icio.us
- Download Statusbar
- Google Browser Sync
- PDF Download
- Sage
- Sapo Tags (Portuguese bookmarking service)
- SearchStatus
- Skype extension for Firefox
- Tab Mix Plus
- Tiny Menu
- URL Link
- Web Developer
- Xinha Here!
Not sure which one is messing up. So for now I’ll keep to IE7 whenever visiting PLoS One.
PS: Thank you for the complement, I appreciate it. Keep in mind that I didn’t design the blog, but I have tweaked it in my own style. :)
Cheers!
You might not need it for this site anymore, but there’s also this extension called IETab, which loads certain sites with the IE engine, like Windows Update.