MikeJ opened this issue on Dec 16, 2006 · 11 posts
MikeJ posted Sat, 16 December 2006 at 7:51 AM
About 10 minutes ago, a page here crashed Firefox, for the third time in the past two days.
I mean as in a seeya later, I'm outta here sorta crash. Just poof - no hanging, no spinning hourglass, no apologies. It's like witnessing an execution or something. It's happened before, but it's been a while. The pages that crashed it were not the same, and I just tried the most recent offender again with no problem.
It's the most recent version, 1.5.0.8, updated maybe a couple weeks ago, and I also have the most recent Java update installed, if that matters any.
This goes without saying, of course, but I'll say it anyway... Renderosity is the only site where this happens....
I'm not too keen on the idea of using a different browser. I like Firefox more than all of them, and I've tried several. Especially IE 7. Whoever came up with that was smoking crack or something.
Ardiva posted Sat, 16 December 2006 at 9:39 PM
Attached Link: Newest FireFox
The most recent version of Firefox is version 2.0..go check it out.
MikeJ posted Sun, 17 December 2006 at 3:52 PM
OK, thanks , I will. But I just ran the "Check for updates" thing in the FF Help menu and it says no new updates available.
I don't doubt you, but I hope one of the new updates is to fix the update checker. ;)
Ardiva posted Sun, 17 December 2006 at 5:10 PM
DDevant posted Mon, 18 December 2006 at 7:45 AM
yes I have same problem with Renderosity on Firefox. It seems to happening more frequently recently. I'm on version 2.
lundqvist posted Mon, 18 December 2006 at 7:57 AM Online Now!
Me as well and I'm also using Firefox 2. I go for Opera with this site (and I sort of resent having to switch browsers for any website, but especially this one). I would also quite like access to the code that does it (as I imagine would Microsoft :) ) Just think: there's code that craters a specific browser! Nice. Can we see the Opentracker stats too? :)
Ardiva posted Mon, 18 December 2006 at 8:01 AM
mccoyneil posted Tue, 19 December 2006 at 3:27 AM
I run Firefox 2.0 and used to run 1.5+with Java disabled (because I dislike Java), altho' javascript is enabled.
I've had no crashes with Renderosity since about 1.5.0.4.
Maybe try disabling Java temporarily, to see if this is the issue.
I also use the extensions Noscript and AdBlock Plus which can be used to block
scripts on a site by site basis if necessary.
MikeJ posted Tue, 19 December 2006 at 9:34 PM
Thanks for the suggestion, mccoyneil, I'll give that a try. :)
mccoyneil posted Wed, 20 December 2006 at 3:14 AM
To save you the hassle of searching extensions,
you can go directly to the following addresses:
NoScript https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
AdblockPlus https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/
MikeJ posted Wed, 20 December 2006 at 4:11 PM
Thanks again!