Having Problems with Ping-O-Matic and Firefox?

5:01 pm 5 Comments

I just started using Ping-O-Matic, a service for broadcasting your ping to multiple other ping services at the push of a button.

The problem is there’s something wrong with Pingomatic.com and Firefox (and IE in some instances). I can successfully submit the first feed, but when submitting the next feed the form breaks and I can only see the first input box for the Blog name.

Not nice…

I found a post at Jaypee Online discussing the Ping O Matic problems at length. The solution they provided, to clear the cookies for Ping-O-Matic, I didn’t like that too much, it’s a hassle clearing the cookies for a specific site only. And I don’t want to clear all cookies having to fill in my details at a million sites again.

My solution:  As I normally use Firefox for my surfing, I now use Internet Explorer for Ping-O-Matic. And even though the version of Internet Explorer I use have the exact same problem, I can now clear ALL cookies. As I don’t use IE for anything else it’s not a problem that the other cookies are wiped as collateral damage.

So when I need to submit a feed, I open IE, hit Tools->Internet Options and Delete… I then hit Delete again and I’m done. I can now go to Ping-O-Matic and submit my next feed.

Back in Firefox my cookies are not changed as I did the delete in Internet Explorer.

TIP: If your version of Internet Explorer does not experience this problem or if you have another browser, like Chrome, you can use that browser for your Ping-O-Matic submissions and use Firefox for everything else.

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5 Responses to “Having Problems with Ping-O-Matic and Firefox?”

  1. fleet1ng April 5, 2010 at 4:09 am

    The problem seems to be intermittent within a span of months. I just wrote a post about this yesterday, http://www.noone-special.com/2010/04/pinging-pingomatic-com/, and now it seems to be fixed.

    I think the solution for everyone would be to code their own script to automatically submit their pings other than waiting for pingomatic to break down every now and then.

  2. Roshan August 6, 2017 at 4:04 am

    I cleared my firefox cookies and now ping-o-matic is working fine. Thanks for sharing this article.
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