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[ale] Facebook photo uploader and Firefox
- Subject: [ale] Facebook photo uploader and Firefox
- From: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:16:20 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <1271171657.2829.159.camel@cfowler-desktop> <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 13:02 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 04/13/2010 11:14 AM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > Why does FF seem to lock up while trying to use the photo uploader of
> > Facebook? Annoying.
>
> I have this trouble with any flash-based uploader, not just on Facebook.
> It locks the browser during the upload, but things go back to normal
> once the upload is complete. Many sites have an option to use a "basic"
> uploader instead of the flash-based one.
>
Why is this? If flash executes in its own thread why would all threads
seem to block?