FarmVille causes a quick Firefox update.
Farmville causes a quick Firefox update.
Those of us using Firefox may have noticed that a rather quick update came in over the weekend. That is because the newest Firefox has a feature that helps keep plugins from crashing your Firefox instance. Well the issue people were noticing with Farmville is that the game would cause a timeout waiting for the plugin check to happen. So Mozilla scrambled over the weekend and enabled a temporary fix, which is just basically decreasing the time for the timeout. A more permanent fix will happen in the future.
It just goes to show you how popular Farmville is, I personally have never even seen it in action besides being demoed on stage at WWDC 2010 and I never plan on changing that. Granted it affected other webapps and plugins as well, but Farmville was the one everyone really noticed.
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