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    Fifefox 1.5 Crashes?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by inkyquills, Dec 11, 2005.

  1. inkyquills

    inkyquills Notebook Consultant

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    I recently got FF 1.5 for a couple of weeks now and I've been experience some crashes where I get an error and it says FF has to close. Anybody else having this problem? It's pretty random but I remembed it continually crashing when I try to access apple.com/trailer and then the X3 trailer.

    Same site works fine in IE; didn't have this problem with the old FF...
     
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    I'm not seeing any problems, maybe try a fresh install?
     
    Brian, Dec 12, 2005
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    Security Focus and users in our Security Forum explore a fresh problem with the latest version of Firefox. "The heart of the problem lies with the history.dat file that Firefox creates," states the article. "The exploit creates a very large entry which Firefox then saves into the history.dat file. This causes the browser to crash the next time it is opened, and each time after that until the history.dat file is deleted from the system." The Internet Storm Center is also on the case. Related: Techweb explores the impact the 1.5 release had on market share.

    Dslreports.com
     
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  4. Shampoo

    Shampoo Notebook Deity

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    Good report btinc thanks~!

    It could also be your java installation or your quicktime installation, as I crashed just once while waiting for a quicktime trailer to load.

    So try reinstalling those, or your firefox all together if it's happening a lot.

    Cheers,
    Mike
     
    Shampoo, Dec 12, 2005
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    ngocthach1130 Notebook Guru

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    I get similar problem on one of my computer. All other computer accept FF 1.5 fine. The one having the problem however accept FF fine also. but when you click on the Tools=>Options the setting window doesn't show up. It show the Wording of each tab floating in thin air but no content. Fresh install doesn't help either
     
    ngocthach1130, Dec 14, 2005
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  6. Shampoo

    Shampoo Notebook Deity

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    Super strange ngocthach1130...I have Firefox 1.5 running on a desktop running an NForce2 board, barton 2500+, 1gig ram, Nvidia 6800 and everything is fine and dandy.

    My laptop (check sig') is also running just fine.

    I only use Internet Explorer whenever I HAVE to because those dang sites that made a devil's pact with Microsoft to make people use IE or not be able to view the site.

    ngocthach1130, your problem seems to lean towards a Java problem. Reinstall it by going to the java download site. Reinstalling firefox won't help in your case. It has to be the java installation that is corrupt.

    Try it out and reply back.

    Cheers,
    Mike
     
    Shampoo, Dec 14, 2005
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