Goddamned ICQ servers

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Goddamned ICQ servers

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In case anyone's been wondering why your web browser would say the page was still loading even though it appeared to be done, it was because there was an icon on the page which indicated ICQ status (it tells you whether the person is online). Because the ICQ servers were slow as hell, this status update was hanging up and causing the page loads to take forever to complete. I just removed that fucking status check from the code, so this will hopefully go away.
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Yeah, I was beginning to wonder.
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My Firebird built in Google search bar won't work with Google right now because of that problem. Weird.
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Re: Goddamned ICQ servers

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Darth Wong wrote:In case anyone's been wondering why your web browser would say the page was still loading even though it appeared to be done, it was because there was an icon on the page which indicated ICQ status (it tells you whether the person is online). Because the ICQ servers were slow as hell, this status update was hanging up and causing the page loads to take forever to complete. I just removed that fucking status check from the code, so this will hopefully go away.
I was about 2 seconds away from complaining about this exact issue. Thank you.
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