What I'd like to know is why they disappear? I've been wanting to get their addresses, to post them in the address bar, see which causes the crash, etc, but haven't found them. Intentional? :confused:
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What I'd like to know is why they disappear? I've been wanting to get their addresses, to post them in the address bar, see which causes the crash, etc, but haven't found them. Intentional? :confused:
I suspect they're not disappearing, just tiny. 1x1 pixel Flash animations are the new web bugs. Among other things, they'll defeat Firefox's default popup blocking mechanism if you haven't defined the privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins preference.
Woot, I just caught a glimpse of one for a fraction of a second before it went blank and the browser crashed -- it was a square ad with a black background, and there was a logo (I reckon Sun Microsystems) starting to appear in the bottom left.
I installed Ad-Block and now the flash symbols shown by Flashblock don't even show sometimes.
Ironically for me, the crashing only happens at work on WinNT not at home on WinMe or Win2000.
But that could be cause I'm using a host file at home to block certain sites which I think feature the ads.
But now I have Flashblock and Adblock installed at work I went a whole day without a crash.
Mozilla warns of Firefox flaw.
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/692390.htm
Don't know if the info in this article pertains to this thread, other than 'crashes'.
check it out.
That's interesting, since we all know winME was the most troubled of the MS OS's.
Was this response to my last post or to poppy4's link because I couldn't find a mention of WinMe in that article.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
Also I clear out my cache, history, cookies, passwords, etc each time I log out of FF so that issue wasn't the issue for me.
Well I posted the answer above and it was rendering the page when it crashed.
Noticeably missing was the flash icon that Flashblock displays, so it was almost as if the bug causing the crash occured before Flashblock could do it's stuff.
I tried surfing around our forums, including this one, with FF 1.5 today and i haven't been able to reproduce this yet
Well I just turned off Flashblock extension and went to go to the index and it crashed again.
Again it was almost complete, but the flash ad had not rendered ?
It's the Sun ad for the X64 server that blabs on about the opposition server being hot and slow and ryhming with Hell.
It pops up and start printing the text then just disappears and the memory read error occurs.
However it doesn't do it everytime.
I disabled Ad-block and Flashblock and just got crashes immediately.
In Ad-Block I have the following blocked:
Code:serving-sys.com
http://m.2mdn.net/876092/Hell_300x250_v2.swf?clickTag=http%3A//ad.doubleclick.net/click%253Bh%3Dv5%7C334e%7C3%7C0%7C%252a%7Cb%253B21872141%253B0-0%253B0%253B11946849%253B4307-300%7C250%253B12411412%7C12429308%7C1%253B%253B%257Esscs%253D%253fhttp%3A//www.sun.com/x4100
m.2mdn.net
Actually it's after that ad has been shown it still loading the sponsored link section at the bottom of the page (I quickly scrolled down) or another flash ad or the stuff in the grey Jupiter media box under the Winplanet section.
It sits for a while waiting for data from pagead2.googlesyndication (or something similar) and then crashes.
However since if I enable Flashblock extension the problem goes away (other than one crash) then that leads me to believe it is Flash related.
Da.mn you flash ads always causing problems.
I turned off the adblock, yet have flashblock on, and now clicking the ads they don't just disappear. Apparently they have their address in the block file, whatever it is.
Except for seeing an AMD ad once, in the last 10 minutes all I can see is that Sun ad, and there's no crashes. I'll try loading them with flashblock off in a few and see if that brings on a crash.
In this screenshot you can see what I referred to in the beginning about color shifts. I've split the shot dead center. Note lines under the VDr banner, right underneath Events>Research>Images>Premium Services..... etc. While all the various page elements load (at dialup speed) those lines flick on and off many times, and so does the subtle color shift that makes you think the monitor is headed South. You can see the color difference in Tuttle's reply area.
So is that unrelated to the crash? :confused:
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1...ramamod1eg.png
Concerning the remark about Winduhs ME, I didn't get crashes with IE6 or Mozilla 1.75
I turned Flashblock off, and it wasn't 5 minutes until a crash. It was typical, in the sense that all you see is the empty white space at top right. Perhaps at a dialup speed I wouldn't have a chance of seeing a flicker of the ad.