Is Firefox 3 crashing regularly for anyone else?

Or is it just me? About 50 percent of the time Firefox 3 generates this weird error message when I close it down. Not when it’s running, but when I close it down. Firefox shuts, then up pops the error. It is marginally annoying, to put it mildly.

No, Firefox, you haven’t crashed, I’ve just closed you down on purpose. Can’t you tell the difference between being closed and crashing? You’re supposed to be all-new and clever. Internet Explorer has never done this to me (probably because I last used it in 1999).

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I am, and you will no doubt all tell me this is the reason, using Windows Vista…

"So… how do you make a video game?" I visited TT Games to find out…

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We were invited to the northern end of England a couple of weeks back, to the UK development HOTBED that is TT Games.

Formerly known as Traveller’s Tales, the Knutsford-based video game creator is riding high at the moment, thanks to its production of the LEGO Star Wars series and the chart-topping LEGO Indiana Jones. Everyone loves a bit of TT right now.

So, to celebrate the imminent release of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Tech Digest received an invite…

Sainsbury's in CRISIS – web site down, shopping undelivered, thousands at risk of starvation

Sainsburys’ web site has broken. The shopping portal is currently redirecting to a “Service Unavailable” message, accompanied by a nice stock photograph of two lemons (pictured). The site went down on Tuesday night, with the problem ruining the dinner plans of the chain’s online shoppers.

Around 10,000 people who have booked deliveries have been left without their shopping, facing the terrifying prospect of having to carry orange plastic bags home themselves for once. Here’s the moment of shame captured for posterity:

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So if you’ve booked an online delivery, not only will they have mysteriously run out of all the two-for-one offers…

Sony adding in-game XMB access and Trophies to PS3 "soon" thanks to 2.40 firmware update

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Finally, a year and a half after PlayStation3 launched in some bits of the world, Sony is adding the in-game messaging features its fans have been gagging and pleading for every single day since PS3 first flopped into big, unwanted piles on shop shelves.

Confirmation was given on the Official PlayStation Blog, where Sony Network top-cheese Eric Lempel said “We’re happy to officially report that the 2.40 system software update for PS3 will include XMB access in-game.”

Lempel then went on to confirm another addition – the arrival of Sony’s clone of the much-loved Xbox 360 point-scoring Achievements system…

Facebook "dipping" craze afflicting the wealthy – pool owners should be "extra vigilant"

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Dipping is, apparently, the HOT NEW TREND among spoilt rich kids who live in the sort of areas where the neighbours all have swimming pools.

The Telegraph reports that youths – no doubt off their heads on alcopops and Skittles – have taken to tracking down nearby swimming pools on Google Earth, then organising midnight swim-meets in them with friends through crime-enabler Facebook…

Google search bar coming to PSP in 4.00 firmware upgrade

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While Sony might be messing things up a little elsewhere in its gaming portfolio, it’s charming PSP goes from strength to strength with each software update – and the changes coming in version 4.00 are every bit as innovative as we’ve come to expect from the portable media-playing power machine.

Well, fairly innovative – there’ll be a little Google search bar on the front end of the machine’s XMB dashboard menu screen thing when you update to firmware v4.00, allowing wi-fi-connected PSPs…

(Only!) Half the music stored on MP3 players is stolen

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According to a survey from British Music Rights, only half of the music on the iPods/Zens/Sansas of the nation’s 14-24 year-olds had actually been paid for legitimately.

The average musical youth has 1770 tracks stored on their MP3 player of choice, but half of that lot’s been nicked off the internet or, more likely, copied from the hard drive…