Why Won't Yahoo Pingbox Display the SWF Object in Firefox 3.6.12 (Latest Version)?

Why Won't Yahoo Pingbox Display the SWF Object in Firefox 3.6.12 (Latest Version)?


Though this blog is about online marketing and not about IT bug fixes, we just had to post this. We've spent all damned day on this b******t bug. I mean, literally hours. The problem was: Yahoo Pingbox wouldn't display anything in Firefox 3.6.12. This is the latest version of Firefox. We scoured the forums and help boards to no avail. So, to save you from hours of wasted time on this, here's what the problem is.

First of all, we're using Windows 7. Firefox version 3.6.12. Short answer: It's not the browser version, it's not the OS, it's not the pingbox code. It is one of three applications:

1. The version of Yahoo Messenger you have installed
2. The version of Yahoo Updater you have

OR

3. The Yahoo Toolbar verison you have installed

We don't know which one of these three it is, but we know it is one of them. We uninstalled all three, and lo and behold, pingbox just started working again like a charm!

Who would have thought? Yahoo's own applications conflicting with one another?? I mean, isn't that something they would have tested??

Funny, isn't it? A web giant like Yahoo can't even make two applications that can run simultaneously on the same localhost without nullifying each other!

And you guys expect to steal market share of Google??? LOLOL