Probably Brilliant

Firefox users may have noticed they had to upgrade their browser over the weekend. Why did every Firefox user on the planet need this essential upgrade? Because Farmville was broken.

It seems the previous update was causing problems with the Facebook game, users around the world complaining they were no longer able to play Farmville because a bug “hangs the browser long enough for [a] timeout to trigger and kill it”.

The current version gets around this by increasing the amount of time required to “kill” an application while Mozilla work on a more lasting solution.

The old time limit was 10 seconds, now it’s 45 seconds. Everybody thank FarmVille for stealing 35 seconds of your life if Flash ever crashes on you.