Last week, I wrote about how running spellcheck could crash recent builds of Mozilla. However, that’s now fixed and there’re updated spellchecker builds that play nicely with the nightly builds and 1.3 release candidates.
Category: web
Mozilla Spellchecker Crashes
If you’re running recent builds of Mozilla (20030116 or later) with the Spellchecker XPI, you’ll find that it crashes on spellcheck. That would be bug 2916 and, fortunately, the issue is known and a fix should be out soon :).
gnod — self-learning ‘like’ system
I heard about Gnod through a post on Slashdot from a story on discovering new music. You tell it some of your favorite bands (or favorite books, or favorite movies), it asks you some questions, and then recommends some new bands (or books, or whatever).
Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of gnod all is about music. Gnod is kind of a search engine for music you don't know about. It will ask you what music you like and then think about what you might like too. When I set gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains thousands of bands and quite some knowledge about who likes what. […]
I entered a few obscure band names (well, highly successful in the metal scene, but not something you’d ever hear on the radio), and its picks were surprisingly accurate (it picked Iced Earth, Dark Tranquillity, and a few I hadn’t yet heard, for those wondering).
Mozilla Crashing on Exit for You?
If you’re running the nightly builds of Mozilla and it keeps crashing on exit, you’ve probably run into bug 182803 — “Mozilla crashes on exit if it connects to a SSL server” (either that or bug 156940, as both have over seven dupes).
And, I suppose your right-click context menus occasionally appear in weird places? Yeah, that’s bug 185107 — “Popup menu after right-click inside an iFrame is in wrong place”.
Mozilla Crashing for You?
If you’re running a recent build of Mozilla and it’s been frequently crashing for you, you’re probably running into bug 179822 — “Flash4 / Flash5 crash Mozilla in recent trunk builds” (I ran into this on my parents’ machine).
The solution, of course, is to just download the latest Flash version (6). Either that, or don't run Flash at all ;).