cooliris
Cooliris Blog, The Water Cooler
rss feed

Weird bug: CoolPreviews and Pacman music

By Alec on May 21, 2010 in CoolPreviews, Support.

UPDATE 5PM: We’ve officially released Coolpreviews v.3.1.0521 to Mozilla.This fixes the Pac Man bug.

It may take a couple of hours for the Mozilla servers to display the new version on the Mozilla addon page. You can also grab the fix at http://www.coolpreviews.com.

So What Happened?
The bug came about through today’s Google’s homepage, which automatically starts a Pac Man game after 5 seconds. We had an old line of code from an experimental build that would load up the Google homepage in the background. We have now removed that code. Previously, Google did not have any music on their page. So, obviously, today’s debut Google’s mighty ghosts of Pac-Man really gobbled us up!

Again, we apologize for the craziest bug we’ve ever experienced! Super thanks to all our users for hanging in there!

———————–

UPDATE 12 noon : Found the fix – get the new build at www.coolpreviews.com! Another update with the story behind the bug coming soon.

———————–

Hearing Pac-Man music when you load up Firefox with CoolPreviews enabled?

There definitely is something weird going on and we’re fixing this bug (which has to do with CoolPreviews, not the Cooliris plugin) right now.

Google launched a homepage today which features an interactive PacMan game, with music, sirens, etc. If CoolPreviews is enabled, the music plays even if you don’t have Google opened in your browser tab.

You can turn off the music by either (1) shutting off the volume on your computer system, or (2) temporarily disable CoolPreviews from Firefox Tools > Addons > Extensions > CoolPreviews.

We should have a fix or a new download available later today on our website www.coolpreviews.com, so please stay tuned!

We apologize for this inconvenience. This has GOT to be the weirdest bug we’ve ever seen.

  • Comments

    • Bug Fix for Windows 7 Freezing issue

    By Jeff on January 05, 2010 in Support.

    To our IE Cooliris users on Windows 7:

    We have recently discovered an error that some of you may have experienced when attempting to open a link in a new tab or Window in Internet Explorer: the browser “hangs” and “freezes”. We are aware of the issue, and we are working on a bug fix at the moment that will resolve this issue for you. We expect to push the fix to production by the end of this week.

    Thank you for your patience during this time, and we thank you for your continued support and use of Cooliris.

    UPDATE: Cooliris has released version 1.11.7 for Internet Explorer. This release addresses the issue mentioned in this post. To download the update, please visit http://www.cooliris.com from IE.
  • Comments