What do you get if go to flickr.com? (DON'T do it if you don't want to reboot)
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February 26th, 2011
Yesterday and I go there, for the first time, and it gets me to sign in my yahoo account and flickr immediately starts to ask me if I want to close the window. And whether I click yes or no, or whether I try to close the window, or whether I try to go to my Fluther or other tabs, it just keeps adding flickr windows. I also tried to drag the window out of the screen (I don’t know) So I did the rebooting. I wasted too much time redoing many things. By the way, I just tried to go to flickr through a search result:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevino/4509001429/
there is no problem there, but I am afraid of going to the “create an account”/sign in page.
I don’t know if I really had to reboot. Did I have to, or is there another way of solving the problem?
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I went to the homepage and the create account page with no problems… Sorry I don’t know how to help you!
@Seelix thanks, maybe it is the computer I am using? Is there an alternate to rebooting generally speaking?
I’m really sorry, I don’t know enough about computers to confidently answer that, but here’s my layperson’s guess:
I would imagine that opening task manager (ctrl+alt+delete) and closing your browser using the “end task” button would probably do it. I’m really not sure why Flickr would have done that to you, other than the possibility that I didn’t sign into Yahoo.
You haven’t given enough information to try and replicate the problem. Even then, it is most likely not reproducible. I’ve not heard of others experiencing a similar issue with flickr. Need to reboot? Probably not, @Seelix has a good suggestion with the task manager.
Of course it assumes that you are using MS Windows, which you have not specifically said that you are using, so it may not apply.
In general, it is useful to know, as a minimum, what operating system you are using and the program you are running that is causing you the problem, when asking about computer issues. As it is about accessing flickr, then your program will be the browser you are using.
For example, I am running Mac OS X V10.6.6 and using Firefox 4 Beta 12. I do not have any problems using flickr at the moment.
@markferg thank you, I am using Windows XP, and IE8.
By the way that is Flickr is the only website that is giving me a problem. I opened about 7 sites, no problem with the other sites.
@Seelix thank you, I have to try your trick after I am finished what I am doing now.
I went to Flickr last night (to find a pic of a guy that could pass for 22…lol, don’t ask) and had some weird problems afterwards with my browser. It kept giving me stupid pop-up ads, and it reset my browsers home page as well. I had to run a comprehensive clean up to get it all working correctly again.
If you’re getting weird browser issues like that, Alt+F4 will close the active window (IE8 in this case). Alternatively, you could hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, which will bring up the task manager. You can then end the process from there.
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