For the last few months, ever since StumbleUpon released their new Beta redesign, I have been plagued by a really weird StumbleUpon toolbar issue.
It seems whenever I visit my inbox on stumbleupon, whether to review friend requests or check messages, my StumbleUpon toolbar starts to freak out and all my FireFox windows lag to a stand still.
During this lag, the ‘Send To’ part of the toolbar jumps to the right and then slowly returns to its normal position.
Here is a video capture I took of the toolbar freaking out. You can get an idea of the lag it causes by how slowly the bar is jumping to the right and back.
[flickrvideo]http://www.flickr.com/photos/weirdasianews/3252766034/[/flickrvideo]
Even after exiting the inbox section and closing down any StumbleUpon pages, it can take up to 10 minutes before my browser goes back to normal.
I asked a few other StumbleUpon users, but no one seems to be experiencing the same problem as I have been having.
I am curious whether this is some sort of tracking or data collection that they are doing with their toolbar.
Seriously though StumbleUpon, what the hell are you doing to my browser?
EDIT: I had a few conversations with the people working on the toolbar and they are aware of the problem. They released a Beta version of the toolbar, which fixed the problem for about a week before I was hit with the lag again.So at least they admit it is a problem and they are working to fix it.
Anyone else affected by this weird Toolbar lag?
even i did not experience any problem like this..
I don't have the slowness in other tabs, but I've noticed similar behavior with the toolbar.
Ouch that is a mess. I havent gotten that yet but I do get time outs when trying to Discover things. Earlier this week it gave me the "white screen of death" 5 times for 3 pages over a 2 hour time span.
I thought it was just me, I noticed the same issues…whew 😉
I was hopeful at first. Grabbed the beta, installed, and restarted FireFox. Went to the inbox and saw 4 new friend requests. Was working fine and was about to come say it worked.. then the lag hit. L
Try installing the beta toolbar located @ http://www.stumbleupon.com/beta. Last update was released on 12/13/08, and I haven't had a single issue with it. Next beta update is supposed to come around in the next week or so.
It also makes me wonder if it is not user based. Like maybe I am flagged so they are watching what I do?
I've never encountered this problem. I've been an SU member for 4 years now and have over 170,000 stumbles under my belt.
So far I have heard of only 3 or 4 people who have. It is weird. I have removed it and upgraded and everything. It only occurs on the inbox screens and it happens without exception.
I was hopeful at first. Grabbed the beta, installed, and restarted FireFox. Went to the inbox and saw 4 new friend requests. Was working fine and was about to come say it worked.. then the lag hit.
Beta means we can f**k the sh*t outta your internet experience but you shouldn't blame us.
Enjoy web 2.0 (taking web, to 'point zero')
The thing is that I didn’t actually install their beta toolbar until today. So I was using their regular toolbar all along but noticed the lag came along after they launched their beta redesign.
Weird, i have installed SU toolbar but don seems to have a problem at all in accessing my inbox and reading the entire message. Maybe you have been infected with viruses, i don know but try to contact Stumble Upon staff and let them know whats your problem