page not loading waiting for gg.google.com

July 07th, 2009 | Category: Design, Web

(skip to THE ANSWER if you don’t want to read the back story)

Um, so, a short post here. I kept running into this problem where a site of mine was stuck on a white page whith the little “page loading” spinner going for minutes on end and nothing happening.

That’s easy, “it’s PHP loop” you might say, but no. I talked to my web host, did a tracert request, and they said it was something to do with xo’s servers dropping pakets, but they were working to fix the problem. I smiled an nodded, and left for lunch. Came back, and things were still a no go.

Then I noticed the key to the problem. bottom of the browser was stuck “waiting for gg.google.com” after a few web searches I found my answer.

THE ANSWER

The freeze is a conflict with the web developer FireFox plugin called “Fire Bug”. Disable the “Scripting” panel, and things should work fine.

Thanks to Brian Pedersen and his site where I found the answer: http://briancaos.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/waiting-for-gg-google-com/

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