Ehsan Nourbakhsh’s Blog

Just to quickly say: at this very moment FireFox 2.0.0.2 sucks!

It dies when a page has too many elements, like Wikipedia pages. Also, it does not like more than 1 or 2 YouTube videos in one page. It simply crashes, even in safe mode with no plug-in running. Sometimes it does not crash, but it sort of “stalls” while loading a tab, and you cannot click a link or change tabs with mouse. Honestly I am using Internet Explorer more and more each day. It works fine on all those pages and in same conditions.

Update: I did the following:

• un-installed Firefox
• removed any folder remaining from it
• restarted my laptop and
• then installed Firefox again

The first page I visited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number and guess what? It crashed! It used to crash on the same page before too. Internet Explorer works fine in that page, and I am using IE for all my surfing now.

Update2: Pooya just directed me to the right IRC [ irc.mozilla.org #firefox], where we figured out what was the problem: a font! Yes, one font named Xerxes [see it here]  could not render CTRL+L character correctly. So, I removed the font and all the pain was gone. I posted it here as a comment to a bug report in 2006. Thanks Pooya!

Today I received two Yahoo messenger messages with very similar text, some thing like this:

Toi di lang thang lan trong bong toi buot gia, ve dau khi da mat em roi? Ve dau khi bao nhieu mo mong gio da vo tan… Ve dau toi biet di ve dau? http://chendang.net—-/nguyen/

I don’t know what does it mean, and take no responsibility if it means something nasty. Also I’ve added some dashes to it. Anyway, the URL in this message points to a web page with only these sentences on it:

Sao chẳng có gì để xem thế này hả trời !!!!!
Emperor cũng làm được như mấy thằng kia thôi ^_^ keke !!!

Tất cả bây giờ chỉ là con số KHÔNG

It is a worm which spreads itself using Yahoo! messenger, and infects unpatched IE users upon access to the www.chendnag.net website. You can find more information on its symptoms and removal on F-secure’s page and McAfee’s page.

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