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Xmarks: Firefox 3 freezes while synchronizing
Until yesterday Xmarks worked like a charm.
But when I started the computer today, suddenly synchronizing with xmark doesn't work anymore. (firefox 3).
Firefox freezes while synchronizing (tried several times).
Hope someone knows a solution.
Thanks.
But when I started the computer today, suddenly synchronizing with xmark doesn't work anymore. (firefox 3).
Firefox freezes while synchronizing (tried several times).
Hope someone knows a solution.
Thanks.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Nowadays, Firefox also freezes while synchronizing. If I let it be, it usually recovers after waiting a while.
Will you start using Workers once Firefox 3.5 is out? That way, synchronizing can be done in the background, without freezing the main UI.
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Inappropriate?Hey tuku,
Martijn is correct in that if you wait for a bit, usually the sync will complete. Large bookmark sets and network connectivity are factors in syncs taking awhile. This occurs on Windows machines as well, when multiple programs are competing for CPU time. Let me know if you are unable to complete a sync after waiting for a bit.
Martijn,
I'll respond to your question about worker threads on monday.
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Inappropriate?Hey Martijn,
Err...I meant Friday? :P Sorry for the delay, we've all been quite busy. To answer your question, we are looking at using worker threads, but it'll take quite a bit of restructuring in our code, so it make take a bit of time. We'll definitely let everyone know if/when that's complete in a blog post. So feel free to periodically check up on our blogs! (blog.xmarks.com)
Thanks for your patience!
Nate
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That's fine, I didn't expect you to be able to add it in a few hours... :-)
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Inappropriate?Martijn,
this happened to me more than once and as I feared its a threading/locking problem. My firefox hung for >1min or so while sync was in progress. My guess is its linear with the number of bookmarks you have and are syncing. It bites, but if its fixed in 3.5 I will wait, I don't like the alternative. :(
I’m apoplectic but getting over it
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Inappropriate?I run one of the latest Firefox 3.5, and XMarks started acting on me. I first thought that Firefox itself was the reason, as it is asking me for the master password at startup. But when I disabled the syncing at startup, Firefox was working fine..... until I actually started a manual sync. The data was properly exchanged for some time, but then it froze on me too. I have quite a lerge collection of bookmarks. However, it seems to work fine under Chrome.
I’m concerned
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Inappropriate?Also, I just retried it on Firefox, under Windows (sic) and starting the manual sync showed the little status window. At some point, it freezes, and when clicking anywhere in the window, I see a (Not responding) on the window title bar. At this point, all I can do is actually kill Firefox.
I’m frustrated
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