For the last day, I've been having Firefox crash in VDr every few page loads (sometimes even on the forums' front page). I'm guessing it's one of the flash ads, because when it crashes the forum bit has fully rendered and so has the WinPlanet stuff on the side, but the ad area is blank. I haven't had any crashes on HWC yet -- are there any ads that run here but not there?
I'm not sure but I would imagine so. The advertisers target their ads for the audience, and the audience between the 2 forums is slightly different. I've heard 1 other party complain of FF crashes on webdeveloper.com. I will ask ad traffic to look into it.
check out Nix's posts in this thread...seems he has had this happen as well.
edit: there is a tool to 'report broken web site' that you can use ...it's under tool bar/right ckick/ customize....and it sends info to the firefox development team.....could help to develop the solution..
Last edited by poppy4; December 10th, 2005 at 11:23 PM.
I had been experiencing Firefox 1.5 crashing, but not with VDr. I've updated the Adblock extension and that seems to have fixed the problem, touch wood.
No crashes, but there's definitely some weird color shift here, though subtle, while the pages load up. At first you think your monitor is starting to crap out, but it doesn't do it on any other site. I don't see it with Mozilla Suite 1.75
I can't say anything concerning IE, because it has a tendency to wait until everything loads before displaying, (one reason I like FF so much).
You'll see it in the light grey area of everyone's responses.
I suspect that only dialup users will notice it, but all the same there's something about VDr that FF 1.5 doesn't like.
Last edited by JoJo Gunn; December 12th, 2005 at 02:49 PM.
For those experiencing crashes, if possible can you take note of which ad is appearing when it crashes? Or if it happens on ALL ads, then let me know that. If the ad is not yet visible at all, then we can't diagnose it this way.
I disabled the extensions for Flash and ads, and sure enough got a crash. Got two crashes, actually, one after clicking Submit Reply.
Can't tell you exactly what ad caused it, because the single most glorious feature of Firefox is how the cache dumps after a crash.
Couldn't get a screenshot, but did see a blank space at the very top right, (the position where, now using IE, I see an HP ad). There was a Sun ad in FF that didn't crash the browser, so I can rule that one out.
Well as Poppy4 pointed out I have been having issues for a while in fact since 1.5 RC2 http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=197268 but minde was giving me a memory read error and the option to debug via Dr Watson.
I've been trying that, Nix. Every time I click on the "F" to allow the Flash, it instantly disappears, and the "WinPlanet" stuff takes it's place.
I think on ome pages there are a few buttons and you click on them and nothing appear to happen it's almost like there are flash sections that are not really there or flash whitespace.
This is the page that I quite often got the memory read error on (two screenshots of top and further down of screen).
As you can see on the right hand side there are supposedley 2 flash objects then a Sun ad and another flash object before the Winplanet stuff.
But clicking on any of the flash objects just makes them dissappear.
So maybe there's some sort of processing going on that decides whether to show the objects and it's causing the crashes or thoae objects aren't doing what they should ?
Maybe it's another page, but I haven't had one crash since installing Flashblock 1.5
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my money is on Trash Flash™ being the culprit
Originally Posted by JoJo Gunn
