# What is the ICQ Number for Firefox?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 8, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662 "2011-09-08T21:50:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662/61 "2011-09-14T09:58:55Z")

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No message boxes so far.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662/62 "2011-09-14T11:51:33Z")

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I was just asking if you know how to take a screenshot now. You said you didn’t know how to do it before. You should make sure you know how to do it now, not wait until next time you have a problem.

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**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662/63 "2011-09-14T12:10:56Z")

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> [@BorgHunter](#):
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> Please follow these steps so we can help you: […]  
> Upload this screenshot somewhere and give us a link to it.

[This is easier said than done.](http://xkcd.org/949/) Someone who doesn’t know how to take a screenshot probably isn’t going to know how to “upload it somewhere” either.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662/64 "2011-09-14T14:10:05Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> …the Mozilla Foundation. [www.mozilla.org](http://www.mozilla.org) has the IP addresses 2620:101:8001:5::2:4 and 63.245.217.21.

I am familiar with the second format for the IP address (four decimal coded double hex digits), but I have never seen the first. Can you explain?

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**Author:** ![what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/what_do_I_type_here)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662/65 "2011-09-14T14:30:26Z")

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> [@mr.jp](#):
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> I like how the OP just continues unabated, even though everyone tells him he is not making sense.

He’s senile.

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**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662/66 "2011-09-14T14:40:19Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> I am familiar with the second format for the IP address (four decimal coded double hex digits), but I have never seen the first. Can you explain?

IPv6. If you’ve read any of the “We’re running out of IP addresses!” tech stories in the last year or two, moving to IPv6 is the solution.

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**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662/67 "2011-09-14T22:15:15Z")

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> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> Sometimes, when I’m’ loading Hotmail (I use this for my home page) I get this–
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> > chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml:194
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> It’s a script that the system claims is slowing my page load down.  
> I have done repeated scans with Spybot, Malawarebytes & AVG. All claim my system is clean.
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> Could the AVG have blocked the recent virus, with the script being a sign of something else?
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> BTW–I do not have Google Chrome on my computer.

The Chrome part is not referring to Google Chrome - Firefox’s internal system\* uses that naming.

What’s going on is that there’s a Javascript on the page that is taking a long time to load. It has nothing to with your install of Firefox, and in a later post you said it didn’t show up again. That particular webpage you were on was using Javascript that is slow and possibly broken, and instead being stuck forever, Firefox asked you if you wanted to stop running it. It’s probably something as innocent as a badly coded ad - I’ve gotten the same error when I’ve made a mistake in my Javascript and it runs an infinite loop.

- Yeah, I know, I’m using not-a-power-user explanations

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-icq-number-for-firefox/595662/68 "2011-09-14T23:43:57Z")

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> [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](#):
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> He’s senile.

**Moderator Warning**

**what do I type here** , you have been around here long enough to know that insults are not permitted in GQ. This is an official warning. Don’t do this again.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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