On Oct 23, 1:49*pm, propman wrote:
> Jonathan Ball wrote:
> > Win XP Media Center edition, SP 2
> > Firefox 3.5.3
>
> > Starting today, news story pages at latimes.com no longer load.
>
> Maybe they fixed whatever was the problem as it just loaded fine here
> when I tried it. :-)

Another unhelpful WFMer heard from; how predictable.

On Oct 24, 3:45*am, Christoph Schmees wrote:
> Jonathan Ball schrieb:
>
> > Win XP Media Center edition, SP 2
> > Firefox 3.5.3
>
> > Starting today, news story pages at latimes.com no longer load. *Page
> > starts to load, there's a whole lot (too freakin' much) "transferring
> > data from..." activity down in lower left border, then page goes blank
> > (gray) and lower left border says "Done". *Main L.A. Times web site
> > loads fine. *Other newspaper main pages load fine, stories load fine.
>
> > This seems to be a common problem, as I saw numerous references to it
> > (but no solution) in web search.
>
> WFM.

And another...


> You know that SP2 is out of date?

You think a works-one-day-doesn't-work-the-next is likely to be due to
an out-of-date service pack? Really? /Really?/

On Oct 23, 11:53*am, Jonathan Ball wrote:
> Win XP Media Center edition, SP 2
> Firefox 3.5.3
>
> Starting today, news story pages at latimes.com no longer load. *Page
> starts to load, there's a whole lot (too freakin' much) "transferring
> data from..." activity down in lower left border, then page goes blank
> (gray) and lower left border says "Done". *Main L.A. Times web site
> loads fine. *Other newspaper main pages load fine, stories load fine.
>
> This seems to be a common problem, as I saw numerous references to it
> (but no solution) in web search.

It's some conflict with Google Desktop. My wife installed Google
Desktop earlier in the day that Firefox stopped working. I
uninstalled GD, and Firefox resumed working.