Spinning Beach Balls of Death!
June 21st, 2005 by Kelson. Posted in Apple, Humor and tagged for browser, camino, Mozilla, WebThe Mozilla-based Camino web browser for Mac OS X has just launched 0.9 alpha 1, and the release notes* include this item:
Rarely see “beach balls of death”.
I don’t remember whether I’d heard the term before (I recall the “spinning pizza of death,” or maybe of doom), but I knew exactly what it meant.
*In spring 2007, they restructured the website. The release notes for the 0.9 series have been incorporated into the notes for 1.0.
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