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It's not, it backs up what I theorized, that this isn't an issue with Firefox, but rather with a version of the Flash player and some coding done in some flash ad. I would wager if you went back to vers 6 or so of the flash player this might cease. I think that's the version I have loaded and I can't get FF to crash here.
Since it happens either enabled or disabled I uninstalled flashblock, and now will see if the crashes persist. It's more important for me to access VDr, with tabs, than to worry about flashblocking.
edit:...even with flashblock uninstalled, on some Vdr pages, FFox still says it's unable to open some flash ads,(??), just like it does with flashblock installed, and then FFox crashes.
So how does one uninstall macromedia flash and find an earlier version, or maybe this is a FFox glitch, and I should just wait it out......growing weary with this.... :(
I posted a link to older versions earlier in this thread somewhere. I would go back at least to version 6, but even 5 couldn't hurt. Can always upgrade again. I won't have 8 on my pc because they've bundled it with some yahoo junkware I don't want on my pc.
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/1251/flash7zs.jpgQuote:
I won't have 8 on my pc because they've bundled it with some yahoo junkware I don't want on my pc.
AFAIK that is a pickable option on the site.....but that is off the subject.....
Liam
Yeah that's what it says, but I definitely selected no, and I still found something from yahoo on my pc after it. I saw it in the close dialogue when I was shutting down my pc.
Well it's been about 6 hours, and no problems. Now I know Spyware Blaster's block on flash is supposed to effect IE only, but I disabled it and as I say...6 hours and counting.
The only variable is the ads that are always changing, and it could be the ones crashing me are out of rotation for a while.
FWIW... :D
Yeah, could be that.
I haven't had crashes for a while but I'm *** Censored to avoid displeasing advertisers *** which seems to workaround the problem.
Great Nix.....Yeah, 8 hours with no crash for me.....guess this is ...ermmm...ahemmm....a sensit$ve area....but without them there's no us .... :rolleyes:
Hey poppy4 only 26 more posts until you join the Specialist ranks - woo hoo.
aww shucks....suppose now I'll have to shower and wash me clothes..... :D
oh well, the price one has to pay when joining a club I guess??.... :eek: :rolleyes: :)
sssh....don't tell anyone, but I just want access to that 'secret' forum.....yeah man... ;)
I was fine on FF 1.1 and 1.5 was fine for a few days. Now 1.5 is seriously unfriendly, crashing almost any time I load a thread. Seems to run fine on general purpose browsing, though.
I just managed to crash IE on the vDr forums too. Hopefully I can post more tonight!
Okay, when I browse with IE here, it seems reasonably stable. So I dug around in the forums and found most (maybe all) of the ads.
Then I dug around with FF. I found two ads that I could never get to display... the IBM one and the Symantec one. They look pretty simple, just text. I looked at the code on those pages and I think I know what is causing the incompatibility. The ads are complete standalone XHTML strict, including header and everything. Two doctype declarations, two <HTML> tags, two titles, and I think the first <html> tag isn't even closed before the second one is invoked.
Code Excerpt (approximately 80% of the way down):
This must be what is causing the firefox 1.5 problems. I'm going to try to duplicate this with more controlled code to prove it. I hope we can fix it now, so I can go back to using firefox!Code:</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- / close content container -->
<!-- /content area table -->
<!--close main table with Flex-->
</td><td valign="top"align="center">
<span id="fullpage">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<title>TITLE</title>
edit: I think this article covers the details.
http://internet.newsforge.com/articl...id=143&tid=144
I was also able to crash IE, again, right after the top VirtualDr bar is displayed.
Well I upgraded to Fx 1.5.0.1 and truned off adblock and flashblock and restarted Fx and came to VDr and crashed within a minute.
Turned adblock and Flashblock back on and it was ok.
Today I have come here and notice some huge ad being displayed that is coming from ad.au.double*****.net (guess the missing word) and crash within 10 seconds, blocked that site in adblock and all working again.
So, not wanting to harp on blocking ads or suggesting that's what you should do, but it would seem again that some rebel ad is causing me the issues again.
It's this adhttps://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2006/02/1.gif
I see what you're referring to Professor, but that isn't present with the flash ads. However I have asked the ad dept. to ask the advertiser to remove the doctype and html/title tags. They shouldn't be there, we already have that covered.