Hurrah - Google Reader is working again Monday, March 19, 2007
I mentioned that my Google Reader seemed broken on firefox, albeit the conditions were very specific.
Well two good pieces of news
1. My Google Reader is working again.
I found the "guilty party" - it seemed to be an add-in called Webcards.
My method was to disable all Firefox add-ins and then restart Firefox. Google Reader started working again. I then enabled the add-ins back one-by-one with restarts of Firefox each time. I left had left Webcards till last for some sub-conscious reason.
Google Reader worked fine right up until Webcards was enabled, then stopped. I disabled Webcards, restarted and Google Reader resumed working.
This would also explain why only a few people had experienced the issue with Google Reader including Sam Sethi, who I know has used the Webcards add-in in the recent past and may still be.
Meantime, if Andy Mitchell of Webcards is reading, perhaps you could have a look too.
2. Google Reader support is excellent
After posting about my problem on this blog, a Google Reader engineer got in touch via the comments within a few hours and exchanged suggestions about investigating the issue.
AND ON A SATURDAY. That is impressive.
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