ESPN crashing Apple browsers?

[Jim Tom Pinch]

Myself and two other Mac users at a game I was covering last night had our browers Firefox and safari crashed by trying to open ESPN.com multiple times.

Anybody know anything about this? I'm hoping for one maybe two on point responses mixed in with the slams on the world wide leader.

 

[FileNotFound]

Not sure about Firefox, but I've run into many issues with Safari 3.0.4. I predict your Apple Updater will be passing along Safari 3.0.5 very, very soon.

 

[Football_Bat]

Why is your post total leet?

 

[Jim Tom Pinch]

Why is your post total leet?

I don't know. That's weird.

 

[sportschick]

It's an Easter Egg. When you have 1,337 posts it shows up as leet. There was one late, great departed poster who kept deleting posts so he stayed on leet for a coupla weeks.

 

[Msaint]

On Safari, mine didn't crash yesterday but every time I tried to get on espn.com, I did get the interminable spinning beach ball of death, had to repeatedly force quit. Seems fine today, though.

 

[Diabeetus]

I use Firefox and was on multiple times yesterday. No problems here.

 

[EmbassyRow]

It's an Easter Egg. When you have 1,337 posts it shows up as leet. There was one late, great departed poster who kept deleting posts so he stayed on leet for a coupla weeks.

The nerd in me can't wait to get to post No. 1,337.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

I had some issues yesterday on my Mac, on Safari and Firefox. I checked for updates (was fine there), and restarted. No isues since.

 

[EmbassyRow]

I've been using Safari 3.0.4 for a few weeks, and haven't had any problems.

Adium X 1.2.3, however...

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Myself and two other Mac users at a game I was covering last night had our browers Firefox and safari crashed by trying to open ESPN.com multiple times.

Anybody know anything about this? I'm hoping for one maybe two on point responses mixed in with the slams on the world wide leader.

I had issues with eBay today.

 

[amraeder]

Yesterday I had issues with Safari. Would get the pinwheel of doom every time I tried to load ESPN.com. A couple of times I got it on this site too.
My editor was having the same problem, though I don't know what sites he was trying to get to.

 

[Duane Postum]

Yesterday I had issues with Safari. Would get the pinwheel of doom every time I tried to load ESPN.com. A couple of times I got it on this site too.
My editor was having the same problem, though I don't know what sites he was trying to get to.

Same here, but all is fine today. I never Forced Quit so much in all my born days. WTF?

 

[Angola!]

It's an Easter Egg. When you have 1,337 posts it shows up as leet. There was one late, great departed poster who kept deleting posts so he stayed on leet for a coupla weeks.

The nerd in me can't wait to get to post No. 1,337.

It's well worth it.
I wish it went to leet at 13,337 as well or 11,337, whichever it would be.

 

[Shaggy]

It's an Easter Egg. When you have 1,337 posts it shows up as leet. There was one late, great departed poster who kept deleting posts so he stayed on leet for a coupla weeks.

The nerd in me can't wait to get to post No. 1,337.

It's well worth it.
I wish it went to leet at 13,337 as well or 11,337, whichever it would be.

I'm getting close. How exciting.

 

[Angola!]

It's an Easter Egg. When you have 1,337 posts it shows up as leet. There was one late, great departed poster who kept deleting posts so he stayed on leet for a coupla weeks.

The nerd in me can't wait to get to post No. 1,337.

It's well worth it.
I wish it went to leet at 13,337 as well or 11,337, whichever it would be.

I'm getting close. How exciting.

Oh, it is.
It is something to live for.

 

[EmbassyRow]

I didn't have these problems. I haven't had any problems, in fact, with Safari 3.0.4.

Hm. Damned if I know.

 

[pressmurphy]

It's apparently related to something they were doing with Flash. A lot of MSIE/Windows users experienced similar problems late last year.

 

[Football_Bat]

It happens with some sites. One site I check regularly crashes my Firefox after about 2 or 3 page clicks. But in Safari, it works fine. No explanation.

 

[Batman]

Yesterday I had issues with Safari. Would get the pinwheel of doom every time I tried to load ESPN.com. A couple of times I got it on this site too.
My editor was having the same problem, though I don't know what sites he was trying to get to.

I had the same problem Saturday night. Also had some issues with SI.com. Both sites gave me the hypno-ball of fate (we have to keep coming up with new names for this thing, right?) when I was trying to check on NBA, NHL and college scores. I figured my computer might be running low on memory, so I eventually restarted and everything was fine after that.