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If you're about to install a Firefox extension, you're out of luck: The Mozilla add-on site is down. Of course sometimes it's not the destination, but your connection - so how can you know? A very appropriately named site: downforeveryoneorjustme comes to your rescue:

The site will quickly tell you if you have a problem, or, as is the case now:

Huh? doesn't look like a site on the interwho.

(As good a name they picked, it's longish, you might want to bookmark it)

Crashes are bad, reporting them is good: it helps developers fix the issues. So far so good, but lately the Mozilla Crash Reporter appears to be a bit overzelous: it keeps on reporting crashes when there are none.

A few times a day it pops up after what appears to be an ordinary shutdown: i.e. I just closed Firefox myself, and it went smoothly – or so I thought.

What’s even stranger is that I’ve been experiencing this behaviour both on a Vista and an XP computer, with two entirely different user configurations (i.e. different set of add-ons).

If I have to pick, I’d rather put up with bogus error reports than real crashes in the middle of work…but I’m still curious. smile_eyeroll

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